The Theory of Thin Shell Structures 1888–1988

Love A. E. H. The small free vibrations and deformation of a thin elastic shell. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., 1888, 179 A, 491–546.

Milne E. H. A. E. H. Love Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1939–41, 3, 466–482.

Milne E. H. A. E. H. Love Dictionary of National Biography, 1931–40, 545–546.

Thompson C. H. Professor A. E. H. Love The Queen's College Record, 1941, 2, 11–12.

Hardy G. H. A mathematician's apology, 1941 (Cambridge University Press).

Love A. E. H. A treatise on the mathematical theory of elasticity, first edition 1892–93; second edition 1906; third edition 1920; fourth edition 1927 (Cambridge University Press).

Kendall D. G. Personal communication.

Cowling T. G. Personal communication.

Jones R. V. Lindemann beyond the laboratory. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1987, 41, 191–210.

Rayleigh Lord The theory of sound, 1877 (Macmillan, London).

Rayleigh Lord On the infinitesimal bending of surfaces of revolution. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., 1881, 13, 4–16.

Lamb H. On the vibrations of a spherical shell. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., 1882, 14, 50–56.

Royal Society of London, Referees' reports, etc.: (a) Lamb on Love, RR.10.194; (b) Love's rejoinder, RR.10.195; (c) Lamb's second report, RR.10.196 (1888); (d) Lamb's letter re Basset, RR.10.318 (1889); (e) Kelvin on Basset, RR.10.319; (f) Lamb on Basset, RR.10.320 (1890).

Lamb H. On the determination of an elastic shell. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., 1890, 21, 119–146.

Basset A. B. On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., 1890, 171A, 433–480.

Thomson W. Kelvin Later Lord Tait P. G. Treatise on natural philosophy, first edition 1867; second edition vol 1, part I 1879; part II 1883 (Cambridge University Press).

Timoshenko S. P. History of strength of materials, 1953 (McGraw-Hill, New York).

Love A. E. H. Note on the present state of the theory of thin elastic shells. Proc. R. Soc., 1891, 44, 100–102.

Sechler E. E. The role of experimentation in shell research. In Mechanics Today, vol. 5 (the E. Reissner aniversary volume, Ed. Nemat-Nasser S. ), 1980, pp. 439–449 (Pergamon Press, Oxford).

von Kármán T. Dunn L. G. Tsien H-S. The influence of curvature on the buckling of structures. J. Aero Sci., 1940, 7, 276–289.

von Kármán T. Tsien H-S. The buckling of thin cylindrical shells under axial compression. J. Aero Sci., 1941, 8, 303–312.

Koiter W. T. The stability of elastic equilibrium, (in Dutch). Dissertation for the degree of Doctor in the Technical Sciences at the Technische Hoog School, Delft, 1945 (H. J. Paris, Amsterdam). English translation by E. Riks: Technical Report AFFDL-TR-70–25, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA, 1970.

Naghdi P. M. The theory of plates and shells. In Handbuch der Physik, vol. 6a.2 (Ed. Truesdell C. ), 1972, pp. 425–640 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).

Koiter W. T. A consistent first approximation in the general theory of thin elastic shells. In Theory of thin elastic shells (Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium, Ed. Koiter W. T. ) 1960, pp. 12–33 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam).

Koiter W. T. Simmonds J. G. Foundations of shell theory. In Theoretical and applied mechanics (Proceedings of thirteenth International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Eds Becker E. Mikhailov G. K. ), 1973, pp. 150–176 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).

Calladine C. R. Theory of shell structures, 1983 (Cambridge University Press).

Southwell R. V. Relaxation methods in theoretical physics, 1946 (Clarendon Press, Oxford).

Calladine C. R. The theory of shell structures: aims and methods. Int. J. Mech. Sci., 1982, 24, 219–230.

Rimrott F. P. J. Querschnittsverformung bei Torsion offener Profile. ZAMM, 1970, 50, 775–778.