Contents of volume 13

Thin-Walled Structures Papers Published in 1992 C O N T E N T S O F V O L U M E 13 Numbers I and 2

Special Issue: Inelastic Behaviour of Thin Walled Members List of Contributors . Design of Beam-Columns in Steel Frames in the United States W. F. CHEN The Buckling of a Pin-Ended Column of Rectangular Cross-Section and Strain Hardening Mild Steel into the Large-Deflection Range N. W. MURRAY

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Initiation of Plastic Folding Mechanism in Crushed Box Columns T. WIERZBICKI & J. HUANG

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Nonlinear Analyses of Thin-Walled Channel Section Columns . K. J. R. RASMUSSEN & G. J. HANCOCK

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Number 3

Buckling and Free Vibration of Cross-Ply Laminated Circular Cylindrical Shells Subjected to Axial Thrust and Lateral Pressure Loading According to a Higher-Order Displacement Field JENG-SHIAN CHANG & CHEN-HONG LIN (Taiwan) A Study of the Dynamic Stability of Anisotropic Thin-Walled Beams R.-J. MAO, J. LI & F. H. LING (People's Republic of China) Closed-Form Effects of Warping and Pretwist on the Torsional Vibration of Thin-Walled Profile Cantilevers OLIVER G. McGEE (USA) Buckling of Compound Hyperbolic Parabolical Shells JIAN-FEI CHEN & ZHENG-AN XU (People's Republic of China)

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Number 4

Thermal Buckling of Clamped Symmetric Laminated Plates N. N. HUANG (Taiwan) & T. R. TAUCHERT (USA)

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Finite Strip Analysis of Right Box Girder Bridge using Computed Shape Functions Y. K. CHEUNG & F. T. K. AU (Hong Kong)

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Bending Analysis of A Truncated Conical Shell Subjected to Asymmetric Load K. CHANDRASHEKHARA & MEGHAL S. KAREKAR (India)

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Cold Forming of Welded Steel T Sections . N. R. MANDAL (India)

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Shear Lag Analysis for Thin-Walled Members b2~ Displacement Method K. K. KOO & X. S. WU (Hong Kong)

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Number 5

Asymmetric Effects of Prop Imperfections on the Upheaval Buckling of Pipelines J. P. BALLET (France) & R. E. HOBBS (UK)

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On Edge-Disturbance Interaction and Decoupling Errors in Thin-Walled Nonshallow Spherical-Shell Frust ALPHOSE ZINGONI & MILIJA N. PAVLOVIC

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On the Dynamics of Multilayered Plates MARZIO LEMBO (Italy)

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Sensitivity Analysis of Free Torsional Vibration Frequencies of Thin-Walled IBeam Resting on Elastic Foundation BOT,ENA B. BUDKOWSKA (Canada) & CZESLAW SZYMCZAK (Poland)

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Critical Shear Stress of Flat Rectangular Plates with Free Edges P. T. ELANGOVAN & M. PRINSZE (The Netherlands)

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 14 Number 1

Stability of Eccentrically Stiffened Plates MEIWEN GUO & ISSAM E. HARIK (USA) Analysis of Closed Cross-Section Thin-Walled Structures . J. X. ZHU & Y. K. CHEUNG (Hong Kong)

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Sensitivity Analysis of Critical Torsional Buckling Load of Thin-Walled I-Columns Resting on Elastic Foundation BOT.ENA B. BUDKOWSKA (Canada) & CZESLAW SZYMCZAK (Poland)

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Vibration of Thin-Walled Structures with Asymmetric Post-Buckling Characteristics M. A. SOUZA (Brazil)

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Buckling and Post-buckling Behaviour of Rectangular Plates under Linearly Varying Compression and Shear: Part l--Theoretical Analysis . J. ZARAS (Poland), J. RHODES (UK) & M. K R 6 L A K (Poland)

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Number 2

Influence of the Mode of Initial Geometrical Imperfections on the LoadCarrying Capacity of Cylindrical Shells Made of Composite Materials SERGEY A. SHULGA (USSR), DANIEL E. SUDOL (Poland) & FUMIO NISHINO (Japan)

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Buckling and Post-Buckling of Rectangular Plates Under Linearly Varying Compression and Shear. Part 2--Experimental Investigations J. ZARAS (Poland), J. RHODES (UK) & M. KROLAK (Poland)

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Interactive Vibrations of Stringer Stiffened Cylinders L. Y. LI & G. A. CROLL (UK)

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Hysteretic Characteristics of Unstiffened Perforated Steel Plate Shear Panels T. M. ROBERTS (UK) & S. SABOURI-GHOMI (Iran)

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On the Effect of Shear When Bending Crashworthy Thin-Walled Steel Tubes A. G. MAMALIS, D. E. MANOLAKOS, G. L. VIEGELAHN, D. M. JOHNSON & A. K. BALKDOUKAS (USA)

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The Effects of Connector Spacing and Distribution on the Buckling Behaviour of Some Single-Cell and Twin-Cell Box Columns S. C. TILLMAN (UK)

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Number 3

Influence of Shear Forces Between Layers on the Carrying Capacity of Cylindrical Shells Made of Composite Materials S. A. SHULGA (Russia), DANIEL E. SUDOL (Poland) & FUMIO NISHINO (Japan)

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Analysis of a Mono-Symmetric Core Wall Structure Coupled with Connecting Beams O. S~MER &'G. ASKAR (Turkey)

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Dynamic Stiffness Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures A. Y. T. LEUNG (Hong Kong)

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Comparison of Elastic Solutions for Three-Point Bending of Curved Pipes D. REDEKOP & F. ZHANG (Canada)

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Linear Bifurcation of Perfect Column-Supported Cylinders: Support Modelling and Boundary Conditions J. G. TENG & J. M. ROTTER (UK)

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Number 4

Behaviour and Ultimate Load Estimates for Thin-Walled Trussed Plane Frames R. C. BATISTA & E. M. BATISTA (Brazil)

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The Application of Computer Aided Design to Cold-Formed Steel Lintels J. DAVIES, V. KRISTEK & M. KVASNICKA (Czechoslovakia)

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Critical Loads of Thin-Walled Beams Containing Web Openings N. E. SHANMUGAN & V. THEVENDRAN (Singapore)

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Collapse Behaviour of Thin Rectangular Plates Subjected to Partial Biaxial Compression K. S. SIVAKUMARAN & SHUDONG LU (Canada)

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Analysis of Thin-Walled Members by Complementary Energy Method Using Spline Function. W. Y. LI & K. G. XIN (Hong Kong)

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Announcement .

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Number 5

Effects of Edge Constraints upon Shallow Shell Frequencies M. S. QATU & A. W. LEISSA (USA) Measurement of the Geometric Initial Imperfections in Diaphragms T. H. G. MEGSON & G. HALLAK (UK)

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Bending and Torsion of Doubly Symmetric Core Shear Walls . T. M. ROBERTS & K. W. YEUNG (UK)

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Local Buckling of Thin-Walled Pipes Being Bent in the Plastic Range N. W. MURRAY & P. BILSTON (Australia)

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