Determination of the stressed-strained state of nonthin transversally isotropic spherical shells with elastically stiffened curvilinear holes

An approximate analytical method has been developed for determining the stressed-strained state of nonthin transversally isotropic shallow spherical shells with noncircular elastic inclusions or stiffened holes, under both ideal and nonideal contact at the interface. The method is based on two tried and tested analytical methods—the method of Fourier expansion of the required functions using Legendre polynomials and the second version of the perturbation method for the boundary shape.