Contact Loading and Local Effects in Thin-walled Plated and Shell Structures: IUTAM Symposium Prague/Czechoslovakia September 4–7, 1990: IUTAM Symposia

Localized buckling of elastic shells in the light of modern nonlinear dynamics.- Contact force distribution between thin-walled tubes and saddle supports.- Splitting of three-dimensional solution into local and global effects.- Plastic squeeze of circular shell due to saddle or lug.- On the contact of cylindrical shells with an elastic or rigid foundation.- Effect of local loads on the stability of shells subjected to uniform pressure distribution.- A study of buckling in column-supported cylinders.- The support of cylindrical vessels on rigid and flexible saddles — an improved analysis.- Expert like system for cylindrical shell support.- Load carrying capacity of shells with regard to cumulation of damages.- Effects of fibre orientations on failure modes of composite shells subjected to unilateral constraints.- Contact problem in the theory of anisotropic cylindrical shells.- Modelling and experimental investigation of plastic resistance and local buckling of H or I steel sections submitted to concentrated or partially distributed loading.- Non-stiffened steel webs with flanges under patch loading.- Buckling analysis of trapezoidally corrugated web under patch loading using spline finite strip method.- Behavior of webs under eccentric compressive edge loads.- Local buckling of steel bridge girder webs during launching.- Elastic and plastic states of metallic structures under bending with allowance for local stresses.- Ultimate load behaviour of longitudinally stiffened steel webs subject to partial edge loading.- “Breathing” of longitudinally stiffened steel webs subject to repeated partial edge loading.- Buckling of thin-walled beams under concentrated transverse loading.- Tests of buckling of panels subjected to in-plane patch loading.- Behaviour of stiffenedweb plates subjected to the patch load.- Parametric study on plate girders subjected to patch loading.- Load-introduction resistance of column webs in strong axis beam-to-column joints.- Behaviour of thin-walled cold-formed wide profiles under concentrated loading.- A finite element formulation for the analysis of local effects.- Early prague tests on welded plate girder webs under partial edge loadings.- Comments on constructions of empirical formulas.- Models of thin-walled beam connections.- On stability of crushed columns under non-conservative contact loading.- Interaction of structures.- The influence of edge effects on the stress concentration around a hole in a thin spherical shell.- Local effects in thin-walled beams subject to bending and shear.- The nonlocal theory of thermoelastic plates and surface problems.- Cylindrical shells under dynamic axial impact.- Stability of double-steel beams elements beyond the elasticity limit.- Local buckling effects on the supports of continuous trapezoidal profiled steel sheets.- Nonstationary vibrations of rectangular plate excited by concentrated force with linearly variable frequency.- Generalized nonlinear theory of shells and plates applicable for contact loads problems.- Influence of the weld size on the strength of rectangular hollow section joints.- Vibrations of composite plate containing circle delamination on boundary of layers.