Direct Derivation of Plate Theories. In : Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics
BRISARD ; LEBEE
Type de document
CHAPITRE D'OUVRAGE (CO)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
BRISARD ; LEBEE
Résumé / Abstract
A shell is a solid body with one dimension (the thickness) small in comparison with the others. The thickness of a shell is measured with respect to a reference surface. A plate is a particular case of shell with flat reference surface.
Editeur
Springer Verlag