Mechanical Characteristics of Orthotropic Plywood Shallow Shells

Rotating Shallow Elastic Shells of Revolution

Introduction. I n what follows, we wish to show that the problem of the rotating thin elastic shell of revolution is intriguing in the following sense. It is possible to obtain a solution by means of a linear theory which looks so reasonable that one expects the nonlinear effects to be of secondary nature. However, when one considers the problem on the basis of a nonlinear theory, one finds tha...

Thermomechanical Buckling of Simply Supported Shallow FGM Spherical Shells with Temperature dependent Material

The thermomechanical buckling of simply supported thin shallow spherical shells made of functionally graded material is presented in this paper. A metal-ceramic functionally graded shell with a power law distribution for volume fraction is considered, where its properties vary gradually through the shell thickness direction from pure metal on the inner surface to pure ceramic on the outer surfa...

Investigation of Axial to Lateral Load ratio on the Buckling of Thin Orthotropic Cylindrical Shells

Buckling analysis of thin cylindrical shells is very important due to their production process.  Usually longitudinal and transversal stiffeners are used to increase the buckling stiffness. In this paper, considering a thin cylindrical shell with longitudinal and transversal ribs subjected to axial force and lateral pressure, the influence of different aspect of axial force to lateral pressure ...

Vibrations of Thin Piezoelectric Shallow Shells: Two-dimensional approximation

Lower dimensional models of shells are preferred in numerical computations to threedimensional models when the thickness of the shells is “very small”. A lot of work has been done on the lower dimensional approximation of boundary value and eigenvalue problem for elastic plates and shells (cf.[2], [3] [4], [5], [6], [8],[9]). Recently some work has been done on the lower dimensional approximati...

Asymmetrical Creep Bqckling of Clamped Shallow Spherical Shells