Thermal Stresses, Deformations and Vibrations of Plates and Shells – A Nonlinear Approach

Abstract

Some preliminary discussion is presented on the nonlinear analysis of plate and shell structures under mechanical and thermal loading. As an illustrative example non-linear coupled partial differential equations derived in the von Karman sense and extended to thermal loading with the inclusion of curvature for a skew rectangular panel has been employed to analyze thermal stresses for movable edge boundary condition.