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This example concerns a symmetric quarter of the half-cylindrical shell. The thinness ratio for this structure is equal to *l*/*t* = 3.1415 × 10−2/0.003 × 10−2. We assume the following discretization parameters: the longitudinal order of approximation *p* = 2, the transverse one *q* = 2, and the element size *h* = *l*/2. The shell quarter and its initial discretization is illustrated in Figure 21. The error analysis is based on the following assumptions: *γT* = 0.007 and *γI*/*γT* = 3.

**Figure 21.** A quarter of a bending-dominated shell—initial mesh.

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