Advances in the mechanics of plates and shells : the Avinoam Libai anniversary volume / edited by D. Durban, D. Givoli and J.G. Simmonds.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dedication -- Publications -- Breathing Oscillations of Rotating Nonlinearly Elastic and Viscoelastic Rings -- A Consistent Theory of, and a Variational Principle for, Thick Elastic Shells Undergoing Finite Rotations -- On the Theory of Quasi-Shallow Shells -- Experiments for Measuring Interface Fracture Properties -- Some Refinements in Analysis of Thick-Walled Tubes in Axial Bending -- Optimization of Panels with Riveted Z-Shaped Stiffeners via PANDA2 -- Nondestructive Testing of Thin-Walled Ceramic Matrix Composites with Matrix Cracks Using Thermography -- A Shell-Backing Paradox Resolved -- Buckling Analysis of Composite Plates -- Static Optimal Control of the Large Deformation of a Hyperelastic Plate -- Computer Simulation of Nonisothermal Elastoplastic Shell Responses -- On Application of the Exact Theory of Elastic Beams -- Effects of Eccentric Stiffening on Static and Dynamic Nonlinear Response of Rectangular Panels Exposed to Thermomechanical Loading -- Bending and Twisting Effects in the Three-Dimensional Finite Deformation of an Inextensible Network -- Plastic Buckling of Rectangular Plates with Random Material Properties and Random Loading: A Demonstration of Probabilistic Structural Analysis -- On Using Rotations as Primary Variables in the Non-Linear Theory of Thin Irregular Shells -- On Shear Deformation Plate Solutions: Relationship to the Classical Solutions -- A Simple Derivation of Cosserat Theories of Shells, Rods and Points -- Structural Similitude and Scaling Laws for Plates and Shells: A Review -- Reduction of the Linear Sanders-Koiter Equations for Fully Anisotropic Non-Circular Cylindrical Shells to Two Coupled Fourth-Order Equations -- Large Deformation of a Pressurized Tube -- On Lateral Buckling of End-Loaded Cantilevers with Transverse Shear Deformations.

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