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Gravity Forces and Snow Loading

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Consider an axisymmetric shell with length L, thickness h = h(x) and radius r = r(x) where 0 ≤ xL. The shell is loaded by gravity forces in the axial direction (see Fig. 10.1).

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Banichuk, N.V., Neittaanmäki, P. (2010). Gravity Forces and Snow Loading. In: Structural Optimization with Uncertainties. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 162. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2518-0_10

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