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Plates and Shells
Art: Frederick Collins, Collins steam engine drawing, 1918 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Tomasz Wierzbicki
- Term
- Spring 2007
- Level
- Graduate
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- 1 reading · 9 other files · 3 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 2.081J Plates and Shells, Spring 2007, Prof. Tomasz Wierzbicki — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: Derivation of plate equilibrium equation and boundary conditions through variational principle
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Lecture 3: Selected bending solutions for plate problems
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Lecture 4: Theory of moderately large deflection of elastic plates
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Lecture 5: Example problem with axi-symmetric plate/membrane
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Lecture 6: Buckling of plates, general formulation
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Lecture 7: Buckling of rectangular plates
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Lecture 8: Raleigh-Ritz quotient for plate buckling
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Lecture 9: Buckling of cold-formed section and stiffened plates
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Lecture 10: Self-evaluation by a mini-quiz in the first half an hour
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Lecture 11: Discussion of the mini-quiz
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Lecture 12: Ultimate strength of plates and elastic/plastic buckling
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Lecture 13: Elastic buckling of cylindrical shells (1)
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Lecture 14: Elastic buckling of cylindrical shells (2)
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Lecture 15: Fundamentals of structural plasticity
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Lecture 16: Limit analysis of simple plastic structures
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Lecture 17: Energy absorption and crashworthiness of prismatic tubes
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Lecture 18: Local denting analysis of tubes and propagating buckles in pipelines
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Lecture 19: Cutting and denting of plates with application to collision and grounding of ships
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Lecture 20: Final quiz
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