Abstract: In this paper we deal with the analysis of stress distributions aroundcircular cutouts in cylindrical shells. Because of the complicated boundary shapes in this type of problems, it is difficult to solve the well known Morley's equation. Based on the error analysis we modified the Morley's equation, and furthermore got a general solution of the modified Morley's tquation which is suitable for the analysis of cutout problems. We took the problems of cylindrical shells under the action of axial tension and in...