Re: Wrc 107

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 18:25:00 EDT

>Excuse my ignorance but could someone on the other side of the Pacific ocean
>provide details of the relevance and aprentage of this document.
It's a recompilation of some original work by P. J. Bijlaard on stress due to local loading on cylindrical and spherical shells. Bijlaard's work is the basis for ongoing work in the same area, basically extensions covering different shell configurations. These days you can accomplish the same thing with finite element analysis without the limitations inherent in the original work, but if you don't have access to FEA software, the method should work real well in a spreadsheet or for roll-your-own code. Like so much of this sort of thing, including FEA, it's no cookbook. If I were looking for this sort of thing, there are some newer WRC papers which I'd look at first.

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