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An imprecise but intuitively clear definition of the shell structure is that it is a 3D body, with one dimension much smaller that the other two. In other words, it is a surface in a 3D space equipped with a thickness which is much smaller than the size of the surface. There are numerous examples of shells among engineering structures, such as bodies of cars, hulls of ships, and fuselages of airplanes. Also some civil engineering structures, such as tanks and roofs can often be considered and analyzed as shells.
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Wiśniewski, K. (2009). Introduction. In: Wiśniewski, K. (eds) Finite Rotation Shells. Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8761-4_1
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