Stress analysis for a class of membrane shells

Summary A stress analysis is carried out for a class of membrane shells, which comprises as a special case a hyperbolic paraboloid, and which seems to have architectural interest.

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Sommario Si studia lo stato di stress (del tipo di membrana) in una classe di volte, che comprende come caso speciale il paraboloide iperbolico.

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The results communicated in this paper were obtained during some research work carried out in collaboration with the Istituto di Scienza delle Costruzioni, Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Torino. Fig. 1 shows a model built at that Institute.