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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
High temperatures affect buckling because the properties of the materials change and because thermal stresses and creep develop. A survey is given of the known solutions of problems arising in consequence of these phenomena and new theories of the creep buckling of columns and of thin circular cylindrical shells are presented.
This paper was prepared under research contract AF 18(600)-1381 sponsored at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Research and Development Command, of the U.S. Air Force. Parts of the solutions described were worked out under research contracts sponsored by the General Electric Company, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Office of Naval Research of the U.S. Navy. The author is grateful to these organisations for permission to report the results. This paper was presented at the Symposium on Structural Problems of High-Speed Flight, held at Cranfield, 20th-23rd August 1956.