Abstract: A pressurized, shallow, elastically isotropic shell containing a crack is considered. The crack is assumed to lie along a line of curvature of the midsurface. The equations governing the ...

Abstract: The complex-valued differential operator associated with the linear Marguerre equations for a constant thickness, elastically isotropic shallow shell with an arbitrary quadratic midsurface consists ...

Abstract: Sanders’ path-independent energy-release-rate integral I for a cracked shallow shell is used to compute the asymptotic form of the combined stress-intensity factor for a pressurized elastically ...

Abstract: The primary goal of this paper is to compute the stretching stress-intensity factor at the tip of a crack in a pressurized cylindrical shell. Shallow shell theory is used and the governing ...

Abstract: The equations describing the stress and strain fields in an elastically isotropic shallow shell containing a crack are reduced, via Fourier transforms, to four coupled singular integral equations ...