Stress and Deformation of a Thin Walled Cantilever Pipe with an Axial Slit

Abstract

In this paper, the problem of a thin walled cantilever pipe with a slit of arbitrary width and position, is studied by an exact method using a differential equation for a thin cyildrical shell introduced by one of the authors, K.Mizoguchi. The behaviour of the stresses and deflections in a cantilever pipe in the case of variation of the width and the position of a slit is investigated, and the results are compared with those obtained by the simple beam theory or a modified beam theory. The variation of the position of shear center with length of a cantilever pipe is also discussed.