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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3A08terminal5.jpg">thumb</a><a href="page.php?w=Image%3ABritish_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg">thumb</a>A <b>shell</b> is a three-dimensional solid <a href="page.php?w=structural_element">structural element</a> whose thickness is very small compared to its other dimensions. It is characterized in structural terms by mid-plane stress which is both coplanar and normal to the surface. A shell can be derived from a <a href="page.php?w=plate_%28structure%29">plate</a> in two steps: by initially forming the middle surface as</p><p>
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