Description:
Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of
engineering construction with areas of application
becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from
aircraft,
bridges,
ships and
oil rigs to
storage vessels,
industrial buildings and
warehouses.
Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes
and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates
specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections,
plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.
The primary criterion for consideration of papers in
Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled
structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed
on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected
that many papers will contain aspects of all three.
