Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 82348, 25 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/82348
Research Article
Asymptotic Solution of the Theory of Shells Boundary Value Problem
1Institute of General Mechanic, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 64, Aachen 52056, Germany
2Department of Automatics and Biomechanics, Technical University of Łódź, 1/15 Stefanowski Street, Łódź 90-924, Poland
Received 2 November 2006; Revised 26 February 2007; Accepted 29 June 2007
Academic Editor: José Manoel Balthazar
Copyright © 2007 I. V. Andrianov and J. Awrejcewicz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper provides a state-of-the-art review of asymptotic methods in the theory
of plates and shells. Asymptotic methods of solving problems related to theory of
plates and shells have been developed by many authors. The main features of our
paper are: (i) it is devoted to the fundamental principles of asymptotic approaches,
and (ii) it deals with both traditional approaches, and less widely used, new
approaches. The authors have paid special attention to examples and discussion of
results rather than to burying the ideas in formalism, notation, and technical details.