† Department of Civil Engineering, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, 13060, Safat, Kuwait
‡ Department of Civil Engineering, University of Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada
Abstract:
An analytical solution to a boundary value problem of moderately-thick and deep doubly curved shells of rectangular planform subjected to thermal and mechanical loadings is presented. Sanders' kinematic relations that incorporate transverse shear deformations in moderately deep shell theory are considered in the shell formulations, yielding five coupled second order partial differential equations in five unknowns displacements. These are then solved in conjunction with admissible boundary conditions. The numerical results presented herein should serve as bench-mark solutions for future comparisons.