Byusingthefundamentalequationsofaxisymmetricshallowshellsofrevolution,thenonlinearbendingofashallowcorrugatedshellwithtaperunderarbitraryloadhasbeeninvestigated.ThenonlinearboundaryvalueproblemofthecorrugatedshellwasreducedtothenonlinearintegralequationsbyusingthemethodofGreen'sfunction.Tosolvetheintegralequations,expansionmethodwasusedtoobtainGreen'sfunction.ThentheintegralequationswerereducedtotheformwithdegeneratecorebyexpandingGreen'sfunctionasseriesofcharacteristicfunction.Therefore,theintegralequationsbecomenonlinearalgebraicequations.Newton'siterativemethodwasutilizedtosolvethenonlinearalgebraicequations.Toguaranteetheconvergenceoftheiterativemethod,deflectionatcenterwastakenascontrolparameter.Correspondingloadswereobtainedbyincreasingdeflectiononebyone.Asanumericalexample,elasticcharacteristicofshallowcorrugatedshellswithsphericaltaperwasstudied.Calculationresultsshowthatcharacteristicofcorrugatedshellschangesremarkably.Thesnappinginstabilitywhichisanalogoustoshallowsphericalshellsoccurswithincreasingloadifthetaperisrelativelylarge.Thesolutionisclosetotheexperimentalresults.
