TY - JOUR AV - public JF - Ocean Engineering EP - 198 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. SN - 0029-8018 ID - discovery10065733 A1 - Cho, YS A1 - Oh, DH A1 - Paik, JK VL - 172 Y1 - 2019/01/15/ N2 - This paper derives an empirical formula for predicting the collapse strength of composite cylindrical-shell structures under external hydrostatic pressure loads as a function of geometric dimensions and layered angles, where the effects of initial manufacturing imperfections are implicitly taken into account. A series of experiments are undertaken on [ą?/90] FW filament-wound-type composite cylindrical-shell models subjected to collapse pressure loads. A total of 20 composite cylindrical-shell models are tested to derive the empirical formula, which is validated by comparison with experimental data, existing design formulas of ASME 2007 and NASA SP-8700, and solutions of the nonlinear finite element method. It is concluded that the proposed formula accurately predicts the collapse pressure loads of filament-wound composite cylinders and will thus aid the safety design of composite cylindrical shell-structures under external pressure loads. TI - An empirical formula for predicting the collapse strength of composite cylindrical-shell structures under external pressure loads KW - Composites KW - Cylindrical-shell structure KW - Collapse strength KW - Filament-wound cylinder KW - External hydrostatic pressure load SP - 191 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.11.028 ER -