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ABSTRACT 



BUCKLING INSTABILITY OF THIN CYLINDRICAL SHELLS 



By 

 John M. RichardsorPand John G. Kirkwoot^ 



The buckling instability of thin cylindrical shells is here 

 treated 'onder static loading. The Poisson-Love theory of shells as corrected 

 by Epstein is ar^plied to the case of cylindrical shells with numerical re- 

 sults that differ rather little from the von Mises treatment based upon 

 the uncorrected Poisson-Love theory. 



a/ Physical Chrmist, Explosives Branch, Bureau of i'ines, U. S. Depart- 



ment of the Interior, 

 b/ Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 



California. 



