Theoretical and numerical aspects of contact problems for shells (Q800762)

The paper deals with the contact problem of a shell with rigid housing enclosing it or with a set of punches. Using Timoshenko's shell theory, a basic regularized functional of total energy without any distributions (Dirac's delta functions) has been considered. Properties of this functional as well as the question of the existence of a solution have been formulated as theorems. Applying the method of variational inequalities, a numerical method has also been developed. Applications of these theorems on the contact of an axially symmetrical cylinder with a rigid housing have been presented.