‘Morphing’ bistable orthotropic elliptical shallow shells

DOI10.1098/rspa.2006.1750zbMath1129.74027OpenAlexW2112293078MaRDI QIDQ5438778

K. A. Seffen

Publication date: 8 February 2008

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2006.1750

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvaturestrain energy formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anisotropy in solid mechanics (74E10) Shells (74K25)

Related Items (10)

Static bistability of spherical caps ⋮ Effects of boundary conditions on bistable behaviour in axisymmetrical shallow shells ⋮ Multi-stability of free spontaneously curved anisotropic strips ⋮ Bistable plates for morphing structures: a refined analytical approach with high-order polynomials ⋮ Numerical methods for static shallow shells lying over an obstacle ⋮ Multi-parameter actuation of a neutrally stable shell: a flexible gear-less motor ⋮ Multiparameter actuation for shape control of bistable composite plates ⋮ The deformed shape of isotropic and orthotropic plates subjected to bending moments distributed along the edges ⋮ Generalised path-following for well-behaved nonlinear structures ⋮ Tristability of thin orthotropic shells with uniform initial curvature

Uses Software

• Matlab

Cites Work

• Bistable composite slit tubes. II. A shell model
• Approximate analysis for buckling of compression loaded long rectangular plates with flexural/twist anisotropy
• Analytical models for bistable cylindrical shells
• The Bending and Stretching of Plates
• Theory of Shell Structures

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