
Mathematical Elasticity: Volume 27
Volume II: Theory of Plates
North-Holland (Publisher)
Published on 22. July 1997
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-444-82570-4 (ISBN)
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The objective of Volume II is to show how asymptotic methods, with the thickness as the small parameter, indeed provide a powerful means of justifying two-dimensional plate theories. More specifically, without any recourse to any a priori assumptions of a geometrical or mechanical nature, it is shown that in the linear case, the three-dimensional displacements, once properly scaled, converge in H1 towards a limit that satisfies the well-known two-dimensional equations of the linear Kirchhoff-Love theory; the convergence of stress is also established.In the nonlinear case, again after ad hoc scalings have been performed, it is shown that the leading term of a formal asymptotic expansion of the three-dimensional solution satisfies well-known two-dimensional equations, such as those of the nonlinear Kirchhoff-Love theory, or the von Karman equations. Special attention is also given to the first convergence result obtained in this case, which leads to two-dimensional large deformation, frame-indifferent, nonlinear membrane theories. It is also demonstrated that asymptotic methods can likewise be used for justifying other lower-dimensional equations of elastic shallow shells, and the coupled pluri-dimensional equations of elastic multi-structures, i.e., structures with junctions. In each case, the existence, uniqueness or multiplicity, and regularity of solutions to the limit equations obtained in this fashion are also studied.
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"...It is an important work describing the justification of two-dimentional engineering theories of plates and shallow shells and should be purchased by university libraries." --Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol.51, No.6More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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Professional and scholarly
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
962 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-82570-4 (9780444825704)
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Content
Part A. Linear Plate Theory. 1. Linearly elastic plates. 2. Junctions in linearly elastic multi-structures. 3. Linearly elastic shallow shells in Cartesian coordinates. Part B. Nonlinear Plate Theory. 4. Nonlinearly elastic plates. 5. The von Karman equations.