Shell Structures: Theory and Applications

<p>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 insects. In the human body arteries the shell of the eye the diaphragm the skin or the pericardium are all shells as well.</p><p>Shell Structures: Theory and Applications Volume 3 contains 137 contributions presented at the 10th Conference “Shell Structures: Theory and Applications” held October 16-18 2013 in Gdansk Poland. The papers cover a wide spectrum of scientific and engineering problems which are divided into seven broad groups: general lectures theoretical modelling stability dynamics bioshells numerical analyses and engineering design. The volume will be of interest to researchers and designers dealing with modelling and analyses of shell structures and thin-walled structural elements.</p>