We consider thin sloping shells of a positive or zero Gaussian curvature satisfying the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses with through cracklike holes. By using a method of perturbation of the shape of the boundary, we obtained numerical and analytic results in the case of"small" cracklike defects with a negligible but finite radius of curvature at the tips. By using new formulas of the Irwin type, we calculated the corresponding generalized stress intensity factors (factors of 1/~/p + 2z I in the stress distribution). As an example, we consider the elastic equilibrium of a spherical shell with a square rounded hole or an absolutely rigid inclusion.Presently, shells are a basic structure in different fields of industry because, not being heavy, they can carry considerable tensile and bending loadings.We consider only thin elastic isotropic homogeneous sloping shells of constant thickness with cracklike holes.I By calculating bending stresses, we use theories based on the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses. By using the method of perturbation of the shape of the boundary, we obtained particular results in the case of "small" and, sometimes, "middle" cracklike holes and absolutely rigid inclusions with a small but nonzero radius of curvature at the tips. We calculate the stress intensity factors for cracks with the same accuracy as for the solved problem of an elliptic hole in sloping shells. We consider so-called convex shells with positive or zero Gaussian curvature
RIR2 R12where R i are the radii of curvature of the shell.The problem is to determine the elastic equilibrium of thin sloping shells with lateral through nonreinforced holes, in particular, cracks or absolutely rigid inclusions, i.e., to calculate the corresponding stress intensity factors with regard for the radius of curvature at the tips of defect. The external admissible loading is assumed to be selfbalanced when the principal vector and the principal moment of forces applied to the edge of the shell L 0 or hole L l are equal to zero. In the case of a simply connected infinite region (an infinite shell with a through lateral hole), the uniqueness conditions of small complex elastic displacements are satisfied automatically.