Theory of Plates and Shells

About the author:
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Mittelstedt, studied civil engineering at the University of Wuppertal, where he graduated as Dipl.-Ing. in 1999. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Siegen in 2005 with a dissertation on stress concentration problems in composite laminates. From 2006 he worked in the German aerospace industry as research engineer and from 2011 as a technical leader and expert in the field of structural analysis. He defended his habilitation thesis on the stability of thin-walled composite panels in lightweight construction in 2012 and is author and co-author of more than 200 scientific papers published in international journals, conference proceedings, but also officially recognized structural analysis manuals. Since August 2016, he has been head of the institute of "Lightweight Construction and Design" at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Basics of elasticity theory.- Energy methods of elastostatics.- Isotropic disks in Cartesian coordinates.- Isotropic disks in polar coordinates.- Approximation methods for isotropic disks.-  Anisotropic disks.-  Kirchhoff plate theory in Cartesian coordinates.- Approximation methods for the Kirchhoff plate.- Kirchhoff plate theory in polar coordinates.-  Higher-order plate theories.- Plate buckling.- Geometrically nonlinear analysis.-  Laminated Plates.- Introduction to shell structures.- Membrane theory of shells of revolution.- Bending theory of shells of revolution.-  Literature.