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Professor Rüdiger Schmidt

Department of Mechanical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Selected Publications:
DaDeppo D.A., Schmidt R.: Nonlinear analysis of buckling and postbuckling behavior of circular arches. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP) 20(6), 847–857 (1969)

DaDeppo D., Schmidt R.: Large deflections of elastic arches and beams with shear deformation. Ind. Math. 22(Pt 1), 17–34 (1972)

Schmidt, R. and D. A. DaDeppo. “A Survey of Literature on Large Deflections of Non Shallow Arches”, Journal of Industrial Math. Soc, Vol. 42, 1975

DaDeppo, D. A., Schmidt, R. (1975) Instability of clamped-hinged circular arches subjected to a point load. Trans ASME J Appl Mech 42: pp. 894-896

Robert Schmidt, “Postbuckling behavior of uniformly compressed circular arches with clamped ends”, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), Vol. 30, No. 3, 1979, pp. 553-556

R. Schmidt and W. Pietraszkiewicz, “Variational principles in the geometrically non-linear theory of shells undergoing moderate rotations”, Archive of Applied Mechanics, 1981, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 187-201

Robert Schmidt, “In-plane postbuckling of rings subjected to a constant-directional pressure load”, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), Vol. 32, No. 5, 1981, pp. 616-619

Schmidt, R.: On variational formulations in the general geometrically non-linear first approximation theory of thin elastic shells, ZAMM 62 (1982) T165–T167.

Schmidt, R.: Variational principles for general and restricted geometrically non-linear Kirchhoff-Love type shell theories, Proc. Int. Conf. on Finite Element Methods, Shanghai (China), 621–626, New York: Gordon and Breach 1982.

Schmidt, R. "On Geometrically Non-Linear Theories for Thin Elastic Shells," Flexible Shells Theory and Applications: 76-90. Edited by E. L. Axelrad and F. A. Emmerlng. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984.

Schmidt, R. and Stumpf, H.: On the stability and post-buckling of thin elastic shells with unrestricted rotations, to appear in: MRC 1984.

Rüdiger Schmidt, “A current trend in shell theory: Constrained geometrically nonlinear Kirchhoff-Love type theories based on polar decomposition of strains and rotations”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-3, 1985, pp. 265-275

Librescu, Liviu and Rudiger Schmidt. "Refined Theories of Elastic Anisotropic Shells Accounting for Small Strains and Moderate Rotations, "International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 23: No. 3, 217-229, (1988).

Schmidt R., Reddy J. N., A refined small strain and moderate rotation theory of elastic anisotropic shells, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Trans. ASME 55, 1988, 611–617

Palmerio A. F., Reddy J. N., Schmidt R., On a moderate rotation theory of elastic anisotropic shells — Part 1. Theory, Int. Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 25, 1990, 687–700

A.F. Palmerio, J.N. Reddy and R. Schmidt, “On a moderate rotation theory of laminated anisotropic shells—Part 2. Finite-element analysis”, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 25, No. 6, 1990, pp. 701-714

Librescu L., Schmidt R., Substantiation of a shear-deformable theory of anisotropic composite laminated shells accounting for the interlaminar continuity conditions, Int. Journal of Engineering Science 29, 1991, 669–683

Schmidt R., Librescu L., Further results concerning the refined theory of anisotropic laminated composite plates, Journal of Engineering Mathematics 28, 1994, 407–425

E. Bielewicz, J. Gorski, R. Schmidt and H. Walukiewicz, “Random fields in the limit analysis of elastic-plastic shell structures”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 51, No. 3, March 1994, pp. 267-275

Kreja I., Schmidt R., Moderate Rotation Shell Theory in FEM application, Proceedings of Gdansk University of Technology Civil Eng series LI. 1995, 229–249

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