Abstract: The potential energy formulation of von Karman plate theory and the Ritz method are utilized to obtain solutions for deformation and stress in a variable thickness annular plate with built-in ...

Abstract: The deformed configuration of nonlinear axisymmetric membranes is obtained by potential energy minimization via the Ritz method. The solution technique presented in this paper departs from the ...

Abstract: A modified linear membrane theory for the pressurized toroid is presented for which the displacement field is nonsingular. The derivation rests on a nonlinear formulation, but the equations are ...

Abstract: This paper presents a minimum energy solution for the deformed configuration of an edge-bonded rectangular membrane loaded with uniform pressure and contacting a frictionless rigid constraint. A ...