The Buckling of Non-Homogeneous Truncated Conical Shells under a Lateral Pressure and Resting on a Winkler Foundation

In this paper, the buckling of non-homogeneous isotropic truncated conical shells under uniformlateral pressure and resting on a winkler foundation is investigated. the basic relations andgoverning equations have been obtained for non-homogeneous truncated conical shells. thecritical uniform lateral pressures of non-homogeneous isotropic truncated conical shells with orwithout a winkler foundation are obtained. finally, carrying out some computations, effects of thevariations of truncated conical shell characteristics, the non-homogeneity and the winklerfoundation on the critical uniform lateral pressures have been studied. the results are comparedwith other works in open literature.