Subject Code: CE6L305	Name: Theory of Plates & Shells	L-T-P: 3-1-0	Credit: 4
Prerequisite: None Pure bending of plates; Symmetric bending of circular plates; Small deflection of laterally loaded plates; Rectangular plates with various edge conditions; Continuous rectangular plates; Plates of various shapes; Shells as space enclosure, geometry, classification, principal and Gauss curvature; General theory of thin elastic shells; Shallow and high rise shells; Circular long and short cylindrical shells, beam-arch approximation for long shells; Shells of double curvature, surfaces of revolution and translation; Circular, elliptic and hyperbolic paraboloids, conoids and funicular shells - membrane and approximate bending theories; Closed form and numerical methods of analysis of synclastic and anticlastic shells. Text/Reference Books: Timoshenko, S.L., Theory of Plates and Shells, McGraw Hill Reddy, J.N., Theory and Analysis of Elastic Plates and Shells, Taylor & Francis Ugural, A.C., Stresses in plates and shells, WCB/McGraw Hill Ventsel, E. and Krauthammer, T., Thin Plates and Shells: Theory: Analysis, and Applications, CRC Press