| Abstract: | The stress-strain state of noncircular shells has been analyzed based upon solution of boundary value static problems of variable shell thickness using the methods of spline-collocation and discrete orthogonization. Shell weight was preserved depending on the degree of change in the thickness and the value of the eccentricity. Three classes of problems were considered in which the thickness varied along the generatrix, the guide, and in two coordinate directions; data are presented about the deflection and tangential force in the cross section under different values of the parameters. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 39–47, June, 1999. |
