Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Thin Elastic Plate Theory (Kirchhoff’ s Theory), Basic assumptions
2	Stress resultants-displacement relations
3	Plate Equation
4	Boundary conditions, Strain energy
5	Rectangular plates, Navier Solutions
6	Rectangular plates, Levy Solutions
7	Circular plates
8	Energy methods
9	Ritz and Galerkin approximations
10	Plates of various shapes
11	Bending of anisotropic plates, Plates on elastic foundation
12	Finite Differences Method for solving plate problems
13	The effect of transverse shear deformation on the bending of elastic plates, Reissner Theory
14	Vibrations of plates