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The description of the geometry is essential for the definition of a shell structure. Our objective in this chapter is to survey the main geometrical concepts, to introduce the related notation and to recall some essential results that will be needed in this book.
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Chapelle, D., Bathe, KJ. (2011). Geometrical Preliminaries. In: The Finite Element Analysis of Shells - Fundamentals. Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16408-8_2
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