CE60139: Shell Structures

CE60139
Course name	Shell Structures
Offered by	Civil Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
Previous Year Grade Distribution
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Semester	Autumn

Syllabus

Syllabus mentioned in ERP

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.