Thermal Stress Analysis of Composite Beams, Plates and Shells

Erasmo Carrera is a leading expert on advanced structural models for thermal stress analysis. He has published more than 30 articles on thermal stress problems, is an editorial board member for Journal of Thermal Stresses and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Advances on Aircraft and Spacecraft Sciences

1. Introduction2. Solution of sample problems in classical thermoelasticity3. Thermoelasticity, coupled and uncoupled variational formulations4. Fundamental mechanics of beams, plates and shells 5. Multilayered, anisotropic thermal stress structures6. Advanced theories for multilayered beams, plates and shells7. Through-the-thickness thermal fields in one-layer and multilayered structures8. Computational methods for thermal stress analysis9. Static response of uncoupled thermoelastic problems 10. Dynamic response of uncoupled thermoelastic problems11. Static and dynamic responses of coupled thermoelastic problems12. Thermal buckling13. Post buckling behavior of thermally loaded structures14. Thermal effect on flutter of panels15. Thermal stresses in functionally graded materials