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A phenomenological constitutive model for characterization of creep and damage processes in metals is applied to the simulation of mechanical behaviour of thin-walled shells and plates. Basic equations of the shell theory are formulated with geometrical nonlinearities at finite time-dependent deflections of shells and plates in moderate bending. Numerical solutions of initial/boundary-value problems have been obtained for rectangular thin plates (two-dimensional case) and axisymmetrically loaded shells of revolution (one-dimensional case). Based on the numerical examples for the two problems, the influence of geometrical nonlinearities on the creep deformation and damage evolution in shells and plates is discussed.
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Accepted for publication 30 October 1996
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Altenbach, H., Morachkovsky, O., Naumenko, K. et al. Geometrically nonlinear bending of thin-walled shells and plates under creep-damage conditions. Archive of Applied Mechanics 67, 339–352 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004190050122
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004190050122