Stability of conical shells made of composites with one plane of elastic symmetry

The paper proposes a technique for stability analysis of anisotropic laminated thin shells of revolution made of a composite with one plane of symmetry. The technique is used for numerical analysis of truncated cones made of binder-impregnated filaments continuously wound along geodesic lines. It is shown that the effect of low symmetry on the critical loads depends not only on the number of laminas, but also on the cone angle.