Abstract
Functionally graded carbon nanotubes reinforced composite joined spherical-cylindrical-spherical thin-walled structure under the actions of axial and lateral distributed loads is considered. The static buckling of this structure is analyzed numerically. The Ritz method is used to derive the governing equations of the joined thin-walled structure buckling. Higher-order shear deformation theory is applied to describe the structure stress-strain state. The continuity conditions of the spherical-cylinder junction are derived. The displacements projections are chosen in the special form to satisfy these continuity conditions. The dependences of the buckling axial load on the CNTs distributions, CNTs volume fractions are analyzed numerically.