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Deflection and snapping of spherical caps. (English) Zbl 0619.73033

This paper treats the finite axisymmetric deflection and snapping of spherical caps which are point loaded at the apex and simply supported at the boundary. The problem is formulated using a stationary potential energy principle and solved numerically. The response of caps up to critical loads and into the postbuckling regime to eversion and beyond is studied and detailed. Phenomena such as snapthrough, snapback, multiple load free equilibria, eversion and irreversibility, are found to occur.

MSC:

74B20 Nonlinear elasticity
74G60 Bifurcation and buckling
74K15 Membranes
74S30 Other numerical methods in solid mechanics (MSC2010)
65K10 Numerical optimization and variational techniques
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