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CEE 598 PSO - Plates & Shells Theory & Compu

Last offered Spring 2016

Official Description

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in civil and environmental engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Section Description

Restricted to graduate online non-degree, online MCS, online MSME and online MS CE students. Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) restrictions and assessments apply, see http://online.illinois.edu. For more details on this course section, please see http://engineering.illinois.edu/online/courses/. Non-Degree students may enroll on a space-available basis with consent of Program Coordinator, Meg Griffin (mgriffn@illinois.edu).

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Subject Area

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

Course Description

Classical and first-order shear deformation plate and shell models: assumptions, applicability, valid boundary conditions for each model, analytical solutions; Finite element methods for plates and shells models: Convergence, instabilities, shear and membrane locking, implementation and verification of finite elements for plates and shells; Applications to relevant engineering problems: In plane loads and buckling, elastic foundations, boundary layer effects; and Introduction to high order hierarchical plates and shell models are covered in this course.

Credit Hours

4 hours

Prerequisites

Undergraduate degree and a course in Structural Mechanics (CEE 471) or a Co-Requisite course in Finite Element Methods (CEE 570).

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Plates & Shells Theory & CompuPSO57672ONL4 -     C. Armando Duarte