Geometric Method for Stability of Non-Linear Elastic Thin Shells

✍ Scribed by Jordanka Ivanova, Franco Pastrone (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

PREFACE This book deals with the new developments and applications of the geometric method to the nonlinear stability problem for thin non-elastic shells. There are no other published books on this subject except the basic ones of A. V. Pogorelov (1966,1967,1986), where variational principles defined over isometric surfaces, are postulated, and applied mainly to static and dynamic problems of elastic isotropic thin shells. A. V. Pogorelov (Harkov, Ukraine) was the first to provide in his monographs the geometric construction of the deformed shell surface in a post-critical stage and deriving explicitely the asymptotic formulas for the upper and lower critical loads. In most cases, these formulas were presented in a closed analytical form, and confirmed by experimental data. The geometric method by Pogorelov is one of the most important analytical methods developed during the last century. Its power consists in its ability to provide a clear geometric picture of the postcritical form of a deformed shell surface, successfully applied to a direct variational approach to the nonlinear shell stability problems. Until now most Pogorelov's monographs were written in Russian, which limited the diffusion of his ideas among the international scientific community. The present book is intended to assist and encourage the researches in this field to apply the geometric method and the related results to everyday engineering practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Postcritical Deformations of Thin Anisotropic Shells....Pages 1-64
Postcritical Deformations of Thin Elastic Anisotropic Shells with Linear Memory....Pages 65-86
Variational Principle for the Global Stability of Elasto-Plastic Thin Shells....Pages 87-107
Instability of Thin Elastic and Elasto-Plastic Orthotropic Shells under Combined Static and Dynamic Loading....Pages 109-167
Crushing of Plastic Cylindrical Shells Sensitive to the Strain Rate under Axial Impact....Pages 169-204
Appendices....Pages 205-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-244

✦ Subjects

Mechanics; Applications of Mathematics; Structural Mechanics