Scholarlink

<p>From oil drums to flying rockets, cylindrical shells are valued for their load-carrying capacity. When sufficiently compressed, they buckle, with the phenomenon taking many forms, from periodic diamond-shaped buckles to localized elephant footing. The precise physical mechanisms of buckling are different, for example, in empty shells and shells with a solid core. However, despite the abundance of liquid-filled shells in industry and everyday life, their buckling is largely overlooked. Here, we compress beverage cans and identify a sequential buckling instability that localizes circumferential rings above a critical level of compression. Combining measurements of the anisotropic material properties of the shell with modelling based on the nonlinear Swift-Hohenberg equations, we demonstrate that fluid-filled shells can support a multiplicity of localized solutions, which are induced by the nonlinear hoop stress of the shell and sequentialize through homoclinic snaking. This establishes a rare link between idealized mathematical studies of pattern formation and physical realizations of spatially-localized buckling phenomena. These findings serve as a blueprint for exploring localized patterns induced by material nonlinearities, near-incompressibility and pressurization in other physical systems.</p><p></p>

错误：搜索内容不能为空，请输入英文关键词
错误：关键词超出字数限制，请精简
高级检索

Sequential buckling in fluid-filled cylindrical shells

  • 期刊论文

  • 出版模式：

    开放获取

  • 发表日期：

    2026年3月31日

查看全文
  • Shresht Jain,
  • Finn Box,
  • Martin Quinn,
  • Chris Johnson,
  • Draga Pihler-Puzović

摘要

From oil drums to flying rockets, cylindrical shells are valued for their load-carrying capacity. When sufficiently compressed, they buckle, with the phenomenon taking many forms, from periodic diamond-shaped buckles to localized elephant footing. The precise physical mechanisms of buckling are different, for example, in empty shells and shells with a solid core. However, despite the abundance of liquid-filled shells in industry and everyday life, their buckling is largely overlooked. Here, we compress beverage cans and identify a sequential buckling instability that localizes circumferential rings above a critical level of compression. Combining measurements of the anisotropic material properties of the shell with modelling based on the nonlinear Swift-Hohenberg equations, we demonstrate that fluid-filled shells can support a multiplicity of localized solutions, which are induced by the nonlinear hoop stress of the shell and sequentialize through homoclinic snaking. This establishes a rare link between idealized mathematical studies of pattern formation and physical realizations of spatially-localized buckling phenomena. These findings serve as a blueprint for exploring localized patterns induced by material nonlinearities, near-incompressibility and pressurization in other physical systems.