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Optimization of reinforced cylindrical shells with nonuniform thickness

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An optimum multilayer shell is designed whose stack of elementary layers has a nonuniform thickness. This optimization problem is solved numerically for the special cases of three-layer cylindrical shells with dynamic and static stability. The optimum variants of layer distribution in this model are compared with the optimum solutions in [1].

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  1. V. L. Narusberg
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  3. G. A. Teters
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Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 298–303, March–April, 1976.

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Narusberg, V.L., Rikards, R.B. & Teters, G.A. Optimization of reinforced cylindrical shells with nonuniform thickness. Polymer Mechanics 12, 257–262 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856462

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