Buckling analysis of circular cylindrical shells made of shape memory alloys in uniform temperature and axisymmetric loading using the exat and numerical solutions

In recent years, Shape Memory Alloys have found a lot of interest among researchers and engineers. Material properties of SMA's change with temperature and stress. Also due to large strains that may occure in them, geometrical nonlinearities encountered in the analysis of SMA structures. These material and geometrical nonlinearities make difficulties in the analysis of SMA structures. In this thesis a numerical model based on the differential quadrature's method (DQM) is presented for the buckling analysis of circular cylindrical shells made of SMA material.