Overview

Geometric Formalism of Shell Theory.- Singularities and Boundary Layers in Thin Elastic Shell Theory.- Anisotropic Error Estimates in the Layers.- Numerical Simulation with Anisotropic Adaptive Mesh.- Singularities of Parabolic Inhibited Shells.- Singularities of Hyperbolic Inhibited Shells.- Singularities of Elliptic Well-Inhibited Shells.- Generalities on Boundary Conditions for Equations and Systems: Introduction to Sensitive Problems.- Numerical Simulations for Sensitive Shells.- Examples of Non-inhibited Shell Problems (Non-geometrically Rigid Problems).