Thompson J.M.T., Hunt G.W., A General Theory of Elastic Stability

JOHN Wiley & SONS 1973, 322 pagesWorking as a research student at Cambridge University in the early sixties under the guidance of Dr A. H. Chilver, the first author soon became aware of what appeared to be a complete lack of any general theoretical framework on which his studies of shell buckling could be based. Linear stability theories, to be sure, were fairly well developed, but following the exploratory work of Karman and Tsien in 1939 it was well known that many structural problems of engineering significance demanded a nonlinear large-deflection approach.