An Analytical Symplectic Method for Buckling of Ring-Stiffened Graphene Platelet-Reinforced Composite Cylindrical Shells Subjected to Hydrostatic Pressure

Abstract

In this paper, a novel analytical approach for the buckling of ring-stiffened porous graphene platelet-reinforced composite cylindrical shells under hydrostatic pressure is proposed under the framework of symplectic mechanics. Three types of graphene platelet-reinforced patterns and porosity distributions are considered, and the effective material properties of porous graphene platelet-reinforced composite are determined with a modified Halpin–Tsai model. In the symplectic approach, the governing equations in the conventional Lagrangian system are transformed into a set of Hamiltonian canonical equations, and therefore, the buckling analysis is reduced into an eigenproblem in a symplectic space. Consequently, the accurate critical pressures and corresponding analytical buckling mode shapes are obtained simultaneously without any trial function. The numerical results are compared with the existing results, and good agreements are observed. A comprehensive parametric study of the geometrical parameters, boundary conditions, material properties, and ring-stiffener parameters on the buckling behavior of such shells is also presented.

Keywords

• symplectic method
• critical load
• cylindrical shell
• buckling
• hydrostatic pressure