Tresca's yield criterion and the associated flow rule have been used to develop a solution for the plastic bulging of circular diaphragms by lateral fluid pressure. The strain distribution in the neighbourhood of the pole is derived in explicit form and a new formula is given for the polar strain at instability. The theory is found to be in good agreement with experimental results for the bulge test. A numerical method of solving the problem for Mises materials is also proposed.
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