Dr. Mark E. Barkey

Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
The University of Alabama

Compression of a Thin-walled Sphere.
Analysis using ABAQUS Standard, v. 6.6-1 on 26 November 2006.
The sphere is modeled with S4 shell elements, point restraint, point loading, aluminum (elastic) material properties.

Quicktime Movie of Shear Stress Distribution.

Von-Mises Stress Contour.

S22 stress distribution.