Study on the deformation of inter-rib shell plate of reinforced conical shell structure under deep-water-explosion loading.

• Giving the deformation mode of stiffened conical shell under deep water burst load. • Giving the trapezoidal deformation function for the deformation of the structure. • Giving the solution model of the maximum displacement of the structure. The reinforced cylindrical and conical column structures are widely used structural forms in underwater vehicle structures. In this paper, the reinforced conical shell structure in the transition compartment of underwater vehicles was used as the research object. Based on the shock wave propagation theory and ABAQUS acoustic structure coupling numerical simulation method, the numerical simulation model of conical shell structure under deep-water explosion load was established. The deep-water explosion simulation of conical shell structure under the conditions of different water depths, charges and explosion distances was carried out, and the deformation and failure mode of small depressions in the shell plate between ribs of stiffened conical shell structure was obtained, that was, independent small pits were formed along the axis direction. According to the theory of elastic-plastic deformation of plate and shell structure, the small pits of shell and plate between ribs were approximated as the deformation of trapezoidal plate, and the deformation function of trapezoidal plate was obtained by coordinate transformation. The deformation energy of plate and shell was divided into bending deformation energy and midplane strain energy. By establishing the correlation between explosion energy and deformation energy, the theoretical calculation model of the small pit deformation mode of shell and plate between ribs was obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]