FUNCTIONAL NORMALIZATION FOR THE SOLUTION OF BOUNDARY-VALUE-PROBLEMS FOR CYLINDRICAL-SHELLS

A simple and efficient method of computing the stress-strain state of layered orthotropic cylindrical shells based on the known analytic sol ution is proposed. Functional normalization of the fundamental system of solutions of ordinary differential equations removes the difficulti es due to the presence of rapidly growing and rapidly decaying solutio ns and makes it possible to compute shells of arbitrary length and thi ckness.