ABSTRACT

Shells are basic structural elements of modern technology and everyday life. Examples are automobile bodies, water and oil tanks, pipelines, aircraft fuselages, nanotubes, graphene sheets or beer cans. Also nature is full of living shells such as leaves of trees, blooming flowers, seashells, cell membranes, the double helix of DNA or wings of insec

chapter |42 pages

General lectures

chapter |126 pages

Theoretical modelling

chapter |106 pages

Stability

chapter |70 pages

Dynamics

chapter |18 pages

Bioshells

chapter |118 pages

Numerical analysis

chapter |102 pages

Engineering design