I am inneed of the notes for theory of plates and shells for structural engineering students


V.A.Shanmugavelu
shanmugavelu[at]pmu.edu

Folded Plate Structure is a thin-walled building structure of the shell type. Folded plate structures consist of flat components, or plates, that are interconnected at some dihedral angle. Structures composed of rectangular plates aresaid to be prismatic. In modern construction practice the most widely used folded plate structures aremade of cast-in-situ or precast reinforced concrete (including prestressed and reinforced-cementstructures). The structures are used as roofs for industrial and public buildings.The main advantage of folded plate structures over other shells (such as cylindrical) is the simplicity of manufacture. Approximate static calculations of folded plate structures are based on the membranetheory of shells; more exact static calculations are based on limit equilibrium and on P. L. Pasternak’s andV. Z. Vlasov’s general theory of shells.