The Koiter shell equation in a coordinate free description
A. Meyer · Qucosa - Monarch (Chemnitz University of Technology) · 2012
We give an alternate description of Koiter's shell equation that does not depend on the special mid surface coordinates, but uses differential operators defined on the mid surface.:1. Introduction 2. Basic differential geometry 3. The strain tensor and its simplifications 4. Linearization to small strain and coordinate free description 5. The resulting Koiter energy