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Large Rotation Analyses of Plate/Shell Structures Based on the Primal Variational Principle and a Fully Nonlinear Theory in the Updated Lagrangian Co-Rotational Reference Frame

Y.C. Cai¹, S.N. Atluri²

1 Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P.R.China.
2 Center for Aerospace Research & Education, University of California, Irvine