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An assessment of local radial loads on cylinders based on the Sanders linear shell equations

Abstract In a recent paper, two of the present authors showed that the maximum stresses measured in a cylindrical shell subjected to a radially applied local load were higher than BS 5500, Appendix G could predict. In order to investigate this apparent discrepancy, an analysis of a cylindrical shell under non-axisymmetric radial loading was carried out using Sanders linear shell equations, which are generally acknowledged as being the most exact available. It is shown, however, that the results from this analysis do not provide better agreement with experiment than those earlier analyses on which design codes are now currently based.