Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Thin and thick plate theories. Bending of long rectangular plate to a cylindrical surface. Prismatic folded plate systems. Pure and symmetric bending of plates. Small and large deflections of plates. Special and approximate methods in theory of plates. General theory of cylindrical shells. Shell equations. Approximate solutions of plates and shells equations. Analysis and design of cylindrical shells. Approximate design methods for doubly curved shells. Stress analysis methods in sperical shells. Spherical shell of constant thickness. Symmetrical bending of shallow sperical shells. Conical shells.