On uniformity of shells

✍ Scribed by M. Epstein; M. De León

• Book ID: 104141345
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 643 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7683
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7683(97)00164-9

✦ Synopsis

Considering a shell as a genuine Cosserat surface leads naturally to a definition of material uniformity which entails an enlarged isotropy group operation. A strict homogeneity condition is obtained in terms of the vanishing of a surface inhomogeneity tensor and two director integrability conditions.