Direct Derivation of Plate Theories

Sébastien Brisard (1) , Arthur Lebée (1)

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A shell is a solid body with one dimension (the thickness) small in comparison with the others. The thickness of a shell is measured with respect to a reference surface. A plate is a particular case of shell with flat reference surface.

Keywords: Thick plate; Kirchhoff–Love model; Thin plate; Reissner–Mindlin model

Domains: Structural mechanics [physics.class-ph]

Sébastien Brisard, Arthur Lebée. Direct Derivation of Plate Theories. Holm Altenbach; Andreas Öchsner. Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics, Springer, 2017, Section on plates, 978-3-662-53605-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_131-1⟩. ⟨hal-01685053⟩