Abstract
Increasing loading on a structure brings about “failure,” either in the familiar way in which the material does not stand up at some point or by the way in which a part under compression reaches a state of instability and buckling occurs. The first of these modes of failure is a failure of material; the second is of a more structural character. The paper discusses preliminary stress calculations, independence of the two types of failure, characteristics of structures influencing each type of failure, relation of the characteristics to weight saving, secondary failures, experimental and analytical methods of studying buckling problems, comparison of different methods of analysis, the simple strut, column formulas, other stability problems, and possible methods of analysis of monocoque construction.
