C. K. RAMESH, TARUN KANT& V. B. JADHAV Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India for a number of cases and for a given set of values of elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio and thickness/diameter ratio. The results are compared with the known results available in literature and also with the stresses predicted by the .4SME Code. NOTATION E h I M., Me M~e, Me~ K D U N n N~, Ne N~e, No. P~, Pe, P O~, Qo Young's modulus thickness of a shell unit matrix resultant twisting moments per unit length of a shell extensional rigidity = Eh/(l - V2) flexural rigic[ity = Eha/12(1 - ~2) 1/R~ + 7 sin ~p/r number of segments in the integration path number of variables in the system of differential equations axial stress resultants per unit length of a shell shearing stress resultants per unit length of a shell components of surface loads transverse shear resultants per unit length of a shell 143