Endochronic analysis for compressive buckling of thin-walled cylinders in yield region (Q1904876)

The longitudinal compressive buckling of long and thin-walled cylinders is analyzed, and some relations between secant and tangent moduli are obtained. Critical stress and the critical radius-to-wall thickness ratio are determined by introducing an appropriate stress function according to the initial buckling, using incremental and finite forms of the endochronic constitutive equations. For thin-walled cylinders made of two kinds of alluminum alloys, the critical stresses are analyzed and compared with reported experimental data and with analytical results based on the traditional incremental theory of plasticity. It is shown that, in most cases, both forms of the endochronic constitutive equation provide more satisfactory results.