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Local Symmetry Group in the General Theory of Elastic Shells

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We establish the local symmetry group of the dynamically and kinematically exact theory of elastic shells. The group consists of an ordered triple of tensors which make the shell strain energy density invariant under change of the reference placement. Definitions of the fluid shell, the solid shell, and the membrane shell are introduced in terms of members of the symmetry group. Within solid shells we discuss in more detail the isotropic, hemitropic, and orthotropic shells and corresponding invariant properties of the strain energy density. For the physically linear shells, when the density becomes a quadratic function of the shell strain and bending tensors, reduced representations of the density are established for orthotropic, cubic-symmetric, and isotropic shells. The reduced representations contain much less independent material constants to be found from experiments.

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Eremeyev, V.A., Pietraszkiewicz, W. Local Symmetry Group in the General Theory of Elastic Shells. J Elasticity 85, 125–152 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-006-9075-z

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