Thin conical shells with constant thickness and under axisymmetric load

The expressions for determining the stresses, strains and displacements of a truncated or complete thin conical shell with constant thickness and axisymmetric load distributed or concentrated along the meridian is presented. These expressions were obtained by the construction of the Green's function for the homogeneous differential equation based on the bending theory. It is shown that a complete cone with lateral load can be obtained as a particular case and in a second step a cone with load at the vertex. The solution for an axisymmetric load distributed along the meridian was obtained using superposition. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd