On uniformity of shells
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M. Epstein; M. De LeΓ³n
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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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 condition