In this, the second of the two articles on a simplified method of teaching anisotropic shell theory, the governing equations of shallow shells—previously derived for the case of transverse loading—are now extended so as to cater for completely general loading. The whole approach becomes almost trivial once the two-surface notion (i.e. the splitting of the actual shell into two imaginary ‘stretching’ and ‘bending’ surfaces) is employed.
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