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On the Initial Response of a Spherical Shell to a Concentrated Force

M. A. Medick

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This paper is concerned with the initial response of a restricted class of thin elastic shells to localized transient loadings. Attention is restricted to those shells which are essentially spherical and shallow in a neighborhood of the loading. The initial response within this neighborhood can be approximated by the response of a (shallow) spherical shell segment to a concentrated force within the framework of a modified shallow-shell theory.

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This paper is concerned with the initial response of a restricted class of thin elastic shells to localized transient loadings. Attention is restricted to those shells which are essentially spherical and shallow in a neighborhood of the loading. The initial response within this neighborhood can be approximated by the response of a (shallow) spherical shell segment to a concentrated force within the framework of a modified shallow-shell theory.

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This paper is concerned with the initial response of a restricted class of thin elastic shells to localized transient loadings. Attention is restricted to those shells which are essentially spherical and shallow in a neighborhood of the loading. The initial response within this neighborhood can be approximated by the response of a (shallow) spherical shell segment to a concentrated force within the framework of a modified shallow-shell theory.

Key concepts: Spherical shell, Shell (structure), Transient response, Mechanics, Elasticity (physics), Classical mechanics, Physics, Materials science

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