ON A NONLINEAR THEORY OF ELASTIC SHELLS

Abstract

A nonlinear theory of elastic shells with small deformations whose material response is nonlinear is discussed. The developments are carried out under the Love-Kirchhoff hypothesis. General constitutive equations are derived in which the geometrical properties (due to deformation) and the material characteristics are separable. Through this separability, it is shown how to extract constitutive equations of predetermined types. Particular examples are followed by a discussion of the membrane theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0295871

Entities

People

  • W. L. Wainwright

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautical Engineering
  • Air Force
  • Applied Mechanics
  • Civil Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Elastic Shells
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Munitions
  • New York
  • Power Series

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Structural Dynamics.