In many problems relating to the stressing of thin-walled cylinders, and in particular those concerned with the stresses set up in a cylinder under torsion when one section is restrained against warping, it has been commonly ...

This report is a sequel to previous work by Williams, Starkey and Taylor (R. & M. 2098) and by Williams and Fine (R. & M. 2099) and treats the problem of the stress distribution in a stringer-reinforced cylindrical shell ...