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This book offers comprehensive coverage of stress and strain analysis of circular cylinders and pressure vessels. It examines theoretically what happens at pressures that stress the material beyond its yield point and at thermal loads that give rise to creep.

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This book provides comprehensive coverage of stress and strain analysis of circular cylinders and pressure vessels, one of the classic topics of machine design theory and methodology. Whereas other books offer only a partial treatment of the subject and frequently consider stress analysis solely in the elastic field, Circular Cylinders and Pressure Vessels broadens the design horizons, analyzing theoretically what happens at pressures that stress the material beyond its yield point and at thermal loads that give rise to creep. The consideration of both traditional and advanced topics ensures that the book will be of value for a broad spectrum of readers, including students in postgraduate, and doctoral programs and established researchers and design engineers. The relations provided will serve as a sound basis for the design of products that are safe, technologically sophisticated, and compliant with standards and codes and for the development of innovative applications.

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Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders under Internal/External Pressure and Stressed in the Linear Elastic Field.- Instability of Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders under External Pressure.- Other Types of Instability in Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders.- Thick-Walled Circular Cylinders under Internal/External Pressure Stressed in the Elastic Field.- Concentric Circular Cylinders with Radial Interference Fit and Multilayer Circular Cylindrical Structures.- Circular Cylinders Subjected to a Temperature Gradient and Stressed in the Elastic Field.- Thick-Walled Circular Cylinders under Internal/External in the Elastic-Perfectly Plastic State after Loading beyond Yield.- Prestressing Thick-Walled Circular Cylinders.- Thick-Walled Circular Cylinders in the Elasto-Plastic or Viscous State as a Result of Steady-State Creep.- Bending Theory for Circular Cylindrical Shells under Axisymmetric Loads.- Cylindrical Pressure Vessels.

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Vincenzo Vullo is full professor at University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy, where he teaches Mechanical Design in the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He taught Machine Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin from 1977 to 1982 and at University of Naples from 1983 to 1986. His principal research areas include mechanical structures, analysis of rotors, plates and shells, advanced design in automotive and railway industry and finite element method of analysis. He is the author of about 180 scientific papers and he is a member of a number of professional societies, including ASME and SAE.

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