Preface
List of symbols
1. Introduction
2. Generalised Hooke's law for an element of a shell
3. Cylindrical shells under symmetric loading
4. Purely 'equilibrium' solutions for shells: the membrane hypothesis
5. The geometry of curved surfaces
6. Geometry of distortion of curved surfaces
7. Displacements of elastic shells stressed according to the membrane hypothesis
8. Stretching and bending in cylindrical and nearly-cylindrical shells
9. Problems in the behaviour of cylindrical and nearly-cylindrical shells subjected to non-symmetric loading
10. Cylindrical shell roofs
11. Bending stresses in symmetrically-loaded shells of revolution
12. Flexibility of axisymmetric bellows under axial loading
13. Curved tubes and pipe-bends
14. Buckling of shells: classical analysis
15. Buckling of shells: non-classical analysis
16. The Brazier effect in the buckling of bent tubes
17. Vibration of cylindrical shells
18. Shell structures and the theory of plasticity
Appendices
Answers to selected problems
References
Index.
