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Asymptotic shapes of inflated spheroidal nonlinearly elastic shells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Stuart S. Antman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.
M. Carme Calderer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A.

Extract

In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of large axisymmetric deformations of closed axisymmetric nonlinearly elastic shells under internal hydrostatic pressure. These shells can suffer flexure, extension, and shear. Since there are spherical shells that can enclose an arbitrarily large volume at a finite pressure (cf. [1]), we take the volume rather than the pressure as the large parameter.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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