Author(s)

D. Karagiozova & N. Jones

Abstract

The dynamic elastic-plastic buckling of a column is examined when subjected to an axial hydrodynamic slamming load such as develops during the landing of a sea plane, or the slamming behaviour of a ship or marine vehicle. The theoretical predictions of a simplified method of analysis are compared with some experimental results published recently by Zhang et al. Good agreement is obtained with the experimental data and some insight is offered on the results including the observation that a quasi-static method of analysis might be adequate for design purposes. 1 Introduction An experimental study on the dynamic buckling of columns due to hydrodynamic slamming compression has been reported recently in R

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