Analysis of shallow cylindrical shell by boundary element method

The objective of this article is to develop boundary element techniques for static analysis of cylindrical shell problems. The boundary integral equations are formulated by using the Maxwell- Betti reciprocal theorem. On the basis of the singular solutions for shallow cylindrical shells in complex variables proposed by Sanders and Simmonds, the displacements and tractions of the shell under various concentrated loadings are derived as the kernels in the boundary integrals near the singular points.@ 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.