CIVE 813 Plates and Shells III

Assignment
Topics
No. of 3 Hour Lectures

I. Stability

Ref. 1 pp. 491-513
1.Plates - Equilibrium and energy methods
1
Ref. 1 pp. 540-566
2. Stiffened plates - post buckling
1
Ref. 2 Section 8.2
3. Cylindrical Shells
1-1/2
Ref. 2 Section 8.3 and notes
4. Spherical Shells
1

Mid-Term Examination
1/2

II. Dynamic Response

Ref. 1 Chp. 4
1. Plates
1
Notes
2. Free Vibration of Shells
1
Notes
3.Forced Vibration of Shells
1

III. Finite Element and Other Numerical Methods

Notes
1. Finite element techniques for buckling and vibrations
1
Notes
2. Computer Codes of Shell Analysis
1/2
Ref. 1 pp. 374-385 and Ref. 1 pp. 390-394
IV Anisotropic Plates and Shells
1/2
Final Examination

References

  1. Szilard, Rudolf, Theory and Analysis of Plates: Classical and Numerical Methods", Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1974
  2. Flugge, Wilhelm, Stresses in Shells 2nd Edition, Springer Verlag, New York 1973
  3. Kraus, Harry, Thin Elastic Shells, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York 1967.
  4. Litle, W.A., Reliability of Shell Buckling Predictions, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1964, 140 p.
  5. Popov, E. P. and Medwadowski, J., Editors, Stability of Concrete Shells State-of-the-Art, ACI Special Publication, SP-67, American Concrete Institute, Detroit, 1981.