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This chapter introduces the study of structures formed by “thin surfaces” such as plates and shells. Plates will be studied in this and the two following chapters. Shell structures formed by assembly of flat plates will be considered in Chapter 8. Axisymmetric shells will be treated in Chapter 9. Finally, the more general case of curved shell structures of arbitrary shape will be studied in Chapter 10.
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Oñate, E. (2013). Thin Plates. Kirchhoff Theory. In: Structural Analysis with the Finite Element Method Linear Statics. Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8743-1_5
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