Soft Shells

Abstract

A class of thin shells that:

• (i) possess low resistance to stretching and zero-order flexural rigidity;

• (ii) undergo finite deformations;

• (iii) withstand only stretch but not compression forces;

• (iv) its actual configuration is defined by internal/external loads per unit surface area only;

• (v) its stress-strain states are fully described by in-plane membrane forces per unit length,

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