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Instability of shells

Authors: Guy LAGAE, Wesley VANLAERE

Publication date: November 10, 2009, Review date: September 4, 2023

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4. Effect of imperfections on the behavior of columns, plates and shells

Paragraph 3 referred only to perfect structural elements. However, perfect constructions do not exist. The behavior of an imperfect real structural element differs from the theoretical behavior of a perfect element described above; it is represented in figure

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