Buckling of Structures

I. Opening Lecture.- Current Trends in the Theory of Buckling.- II. Buckling and Post-Buckling Calculations.- Critical Buckling Loads of some Prismatic Plate Assemblies.- On the Collapse Load of Cylindrical Shells.- Finite Element Representations for Thin Shell Instability Analysis.- Computer Solutions for Static and Dynamic Buckling of Shells.- III. Plasticity and Creep.- Theory and Experiment in the Creep Buckling of Plates and Shells.- Nonsymmetric Creep Buckling of Cylindrical Shells under Axial Compression and External Pressure.- Creep Instability of Thick Shell Structures.- A Plastic Flow Rule at a Yield Corner.- Analytical and Numerical Study of the Effects of Initial Imperfections on the Inelastic Buckling of a Cruciform Column.- Stability Analysis of Rigid Plastic Structures at the Yield-Point Load.- IV. Mode Interaction.- Mode Interaction with Stiffened Panels.- An Alternative Approach to the Interaction between Local and Overall Buckling in Stiffened Panels.- An Experimental Study of Imperfection-Sensitivity in the Interactive Buckling of Stiffened Plates.- Mode Interaction in an Eccentrically Stiffened Elastic-Plastic Panel under Compression.- V. Stochastics.- Buckling of Stochastically Imperfect Structures.- Reliability of Slender Columns: Comparison of Different Approximations.- Some Statistical Aspects of Coupled Buckling Structures.- VI. Dynamics.- Some Remarks on Liapunov Stability of Elastic Dynamical Systems.- An Investigation of the Stability and Vibration of a Hyperbolic Shell of one Sheet under Axisymmetric Loading.- VII. Experiments.- The Influence of Boundary Conditions on the Buckling of Stiffened Cylindrical Shells.- The Effect of Shape Imperfections and Stiffening on the Buckling of Circular Cylinders.- Calculated Postbuckling Loads as Lower Limits for the Buckling Loads of Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders.- Prediction of Buckling Loads Based on Experimentally Measured Initial Imperfections.- Experiments on the Postbuckling Behavior of