Effect of structural and mechanical characteristics of the composite material on the deformation of a reflector antenna

This is a study of the effect of structural and mechanical characteristics of a composite material on the stress–strain state of a reflector antenna shaped as a composite thin shell of revolution subjected to gravity, wind, and temperature loads. The boundaryvalue problem for the system of partial differential equations governing the behavior of this structure is reduced to a sequence of boundaryvalue problems for inhomogeneous systems of ordinary differential equations with variable coefficients. The resulting stiff systems of equations are solved by Godunov's method of discrete orthogonalization.