ANALYTICAL PERTURBATION METHOD FOR CALCULATION OF SHELLS BASED ON 2D PADÉ APPROXIMANTS.

Calculations of nonlinear displacements and vibrations of inhomogeneous loaded shells with developable principal surface by means of different analytical methods are represented. It is shown that solutions to these methods are the expansions of exact solution in the Taylor series for an independent variable, and in the particular case - for the powers of a natural parameter. A method that provides a polynomial asymptotic approximation of the exact solution of the general form and its meromorphic continuation based on 1D and 2D Padé approximations is proposed. Calculations of nonlinear deformation and stability of elastic flexible circular cylindrical shell under uniform external pressures and of free oscillations of simply supported stringer shell demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]