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Thin shells are three-dimensional structures with a dimension (the thickness) small with respect to the two others. Such thin structures are widely used in automobile and aviation industries, or in civil engineering, because they provide an important stiffness, due to their curvature, with a small weight.
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Sanchez-Palencia, E., Millet, O., Béchet, F. (2010). Introduction. In: Singular Problems in Shell Theory. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13815-7_1
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