UNBENDING SHAPES OF THIN-WALLED FLAT
TRANSLATIONAL SHELLS OF VARIABLE THICKNESS

T. M. Martynenko

UDC 539.3:531.2.001:621.81

Consideration is given to the problem on selection of 
the thickness of a flat translational shell in which the prescribed 
external load and temperature field lead only to a zero-moment stressed
-strained state (i.e., generate only membrane forces and do not change 
the curvature of the median surface). Within the framework of the 
Kirchhoff-Love theory, this problem is reduced to solution of a 
nonlinear differential equation.

Command-Engineering Institute of the Ministry of Emergencies 
of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 150-152, 
May-June, 2005. Original article submitted September 16, 2004.