The Vibration Correlation Technique (VCT), a nondestructive in-situ method to assess buckling loads is applied today to all basic thin walled structures, like columns (beams), plates, panels and shells yielding very good predictions for the experimental buckling load.

The present review of the VCT highlights its analytical and experimental state-of-the-art by presenting the relevant derivations for columns, plates and shells together with test results stressing the reliable nondestructive nature of the method.

Recent manuscripts reported successful applications of VCT to cylindrical shells, thus providing sound evidence of the applicability and reliability of the method. However, it is advised that more tests results should be provided to enlarge the experimental database for the application of VCT as a nondestructive method to predict the buckling load of thin walled structures.

如今，振动相关技术（VCT）是一种用于评估屈曲载荷的非破坏性原位方法，目前已应用于所有基本的薄壁结构（如圆柱（梁），板，面板和壳体），可很好地预测实验屈曲载荷。

VCT的当前回顾通过介绍有关柱，板和壳的相关推导以及强调该方法可靠的无损性质的测试结果，突出了其分析和实验的最新技术。

最近的手稿报道了VCT在圆柱壳上的成功应用，从而为该方法的适用性和可靠性提供了有力的证据。但是，建议应提供更多的测试结果，以扩大用于VCT作为预测薄壁结构屈曲载荷的非破坏性方法的应用的实验数据库。