Weight Optimum Design of Pressurized and Axially Loaded Stiffened Conical Shells to Prevent Stress and Buckling Failures

Subject Areas : Engineering

M Talebitooti ¹ , M Fadaee ² , M.H Seyyedsharbati ³ , M.M Shojaee ⁴

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran

Received: 2017-03-30 Accepted : 2017-05-25 Published : 2017-09-01

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