Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4248-5
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Interestingly, notions that pertain to di?erential geometry per se,suchas covariant derivatives of tensor ?elds, are also introduced in Chapters 3 and 4, where they appear most naturally in the derivation of the basic boundary value problems of three-dimensional elasticity and shell theory.
Subject: Engineering, Gaussian curvature, curvature, curvilinear coordinates, differential geometry, differential geometry of surfaces, elasticity theory, shell theory, surface theory