Young engineers often ask about whether to select membrane or thin shell or thick shell for modelling area elements such as RCC slab. I am going to talk about the difference in the results when choosing thin-shell or membrane. This is what makers of ETABS says about the topic. I will quo...
A wire of Zr has been oxidized to form a core–shell structure, in which the core is a metal wire, and the shell is an oxide layer that is around 10 µm thick. The characterization of the samples has been performed by means of several techniques based on Scanning Electron Microscopy ...