Madureira, M.L.R.Fonseca, E.M.M.Melo, F.J.M.Q. de2011-01-182011-01-182010Madureira, L.; Fonseca, E.M.M.; Melo, F.J.M.Q. de (2010). The deformation of cylindrical shells subjected to radial loads. In11th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics. Brasil.http://hdl.handle.net/10198/3151The exact bending solutions of moderately thick rectangular plates with two opposite sides simply into Hamilton cononical equations. Then the whole state variables are separeted. According to the method of eigenfunction expansion in the symplectic geometry, the exact bending solutions of the plates are used and there is no need to select the deformation functions arbitrary, the approach utilized is completely reasonable.engModerately thick plateExact solutionSymplectic approachconference object2011-01-17