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:

1. Timoshenko S. Theory of Plates and Shells, McGraw-Hill.
2. Reddy J. N. Theory and Analysis of Elastic Plates and Shells, Taylor & Francis.
3. Ugural A. C. Stresses in plates and shells, McGraw-Hill.