Nonlinear Analysis of Transverse Shear Deformable Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells—Part II: Buckling of Axially Compressed Cross-Ply Circular and Oval Cylinders

A linearized transverse shear deformable shell theory presented in a companion paper is confined to consideration with the buckling problem of axially compressed, cross-ply laminated noncircular cylindrical shells. Based on a solution of its governing differential equations, obtained for simply supported shells by means of Galerkin’s method, a study of the buckling problem of axially compressed circular and oval cylindrical shells, of a regular antisymmetric cross-ply laminated arrangement, is presented. Moreover, by comparing the numerical results obtained with corresponding results based on a classical Love-type shell theory, the combined influence of both the transverse shear deformation and the shell eccentricity on the buckling loads of such laminated composite shells is examined.