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A Critical Study of Howell et al.'s Nonlinear Beam Theory
Kavinda Jayawardana
In our analysis, we show that Howell et al.'s nonlinear beam theory does not depict a representation of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation, nonlinear or otherwise. The authors' nonl…
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A Critical Study of Efrati et al.'s Elastic Theory of Unconstrained non-Euclidean Plates
Kavinda Jayawardana
In our analysis, we show that Efrati et al.'s publication is inconsistent with the mathematics of plate theory. However it is more consistent with the mathematics of shell theory,…