Tension buckling of plate having a hole

Generally, it is believed that buckling of plates never arises under tensile load. However, when a plate has a hole, compression stresses appear locally near the hole under a tensile load, and the compression stress may cause local buckling—so-called tension buckling—of the plate. In this paper, some results of numerical analysis on the tension buckling are presented, and basic behaviour on the tension buckling is discussed.