Using refined Timoshenko's hypotheses and similar hypotheses for electric field quantities, a thermomechanical model of thin-walled shells with distributed transversely isotropic actuators is presented with taking the dissipative heating and physical nonlinearities into account.

Using the refined Timoshenko's hypotheses and similar hypotheses for electric field quantities, a thermomechanical model of thin-walled shells with distributed transversely isotropic sensors with regard for dissipative heating and physical nonlinearities is presented. Several types of electric boundary conditions are considered, when electrodes on a sensor are short-circuited or open. The formulas for sensor's indices are obtained for different boundary conditions.