MECH ENG 4125 - Stresses in Plates & Shells

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2014

Plate bending theory; Kirchhoff hypotheses; Bending of circular and rectangular plates; Bending of plates of various geometry; Combined loading; Thermal stresses; Membrane theory of shells and intro to asymptotic theories; Momentum theory; Axisymmetrically loaded circular cylindrical shells; Applications to pressure vessels.

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