A new approach to large deflection analyses of spherical and cylindrical shells under thermal loading (Q1075792)

The present study offers a modified energy expression in deriving the differential equations for heated thin elastic shallow spherical and cylindrical shells following Banerjee's line of thought [as given by the second author, J. Thermal Stresses (to appear)] for large deflection analyses of heated elastic plates. As a consequence, the partial differential equations in the coupled forms have been decoupled and thus simplified. In particular, the nonlinear behaviour of a heated clamped thin elastic spherical shell and of a heated simply supported cylindrical shell have been investigated both for immovable as well as movable edge conditions. The mathematical results are given in tabular forms and are compared with those obtained by Berger's method [\textit{H. M. Berger}, J. Appl. Mech. 22, 465-672 (1955; Zbl 0066.420)].