Abstract: The paper is devoted to the description of stability conditions of a vertical cylindrical flexible inextensible shell. The air is forced upward with the fan inside the shell. On the upper ...

In Part I of this paper the authors modified a conventional vertical lift gate with a flat skin plate, with the cylindrical shell skin plate having vertical stiffeners[2]. However, it was observed ...

Vertical lift gates with a flat skin plate are generally installed in hydraulic structures. In this paper new geometry of the cylindrical shell type skin plate of a vertical lift gate is proposed in ...