Buckling of shallow spherical shells including the effects of transverse shear deformation

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1519-1529

  Li, Q S ^a   Liu, J ^a,b   Tang, J ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Buckling; Large deformation; Non linear stability; Shallow spherical shell

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); ITERATIVE METHODS; LOADS (FORCES); POISSON RATIO; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STABILITY; STIFFNESS;

DEFLECTION EQUATION; LARGE DEFORMATION; NON-LINEAR STABILITY; SHALLOW SPHERICAL SHELLS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 0942288524     PISSN: 00207403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2003.09.020     Document Type: Article

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