Abstract This paper presents a numerical study which is concerned with the prediction of the response and instabilities in long circular cylindrical shells under dynamic pure bending. Of particular interest is the response of such shells, bent into the plastic range of the material, and the various instability characteristics of the shells under dynamic bending (sudden step load). It was found that the major deformation characteristic of the shells is essentially similar to that observed in the static bending when the applied moment is much smaller than the critical dynamic moment. However, when the applied moment is close to the critical dynamic moment, the ovalization of the shell cross-section was found to be localized over a length of several shell diameters in the central region, even though the response of the shell curvature was shown to be still stable in this case. When the applied moment reaches the critical dynamic moment, the response of the shell curvature was shown significantly increasing with time and the shell buckled catastrophically. For thicker shells, it was found that the development of localized ovalization of the shell cross-section is the major factor that causes shell dynamic instability. For thinner shells, however, besides the localized ovalization, the bifurcation induced by short wavelength ripples on the compressed side of the shell was also observed in the initial buckling patterns. After the bifurcation, the initial buckling pattern was replaced by the final postbuckling mode characterized by a localized sharp cupping in the centre of the shell.
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