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Life can both be a drama and a comedy. Ingrid's was a busy life, with its share of adversity. Then one day, feeling frustrated and full of pent-up emotions, she turned on the tap to water the plants in the garden, and a flow of words started pouring out of her. She started writing them down on bits of scrap paper, supermarket dockets, and on the back of envelopes at first. They were words describing observations of self and others, past issues, an affair, a divorce, grief, anger, humor, and some sheer silliness. Some of her skeletons still rattle, but mostly they dance in her cupboard. You...

Plate and shell theories experienced a renaissance in recent years. The potentials of smart materials, the challenges of adaptive structures, the demands of thin-film technologies and more on the one hand and the availability of newly developed mathematical tools, the tremendous increase in computer facilities and the improvement of commercial software packages on the other caused a reanimation of the scientific interest. In the present book the contributions of the participants of the EUROMECH Colloquium 444 "Critical Review of the Theories of Plates and Shells and New Applications" have...

Plate and shell theories experienced a renaissance in recent years. The potentials of smart materials, the challenges of adaptive structures, the demands of thin-film technologies and more on the one hand and the availability of newly developed mathematical tools, the tremendous increase in computer facilities and the improvement of commercial software packages on the other caused a reanimation of the scientific interest. In the present book the contributions of the participants of the EUROMECH Colloquium 444 "Critical Review of the Theories of Plates and Shells and New Applications" have...