Week 1
Thursday, September 2: Introductory comments.  The relation between the usual beam bending analysis and the same problem in linear elasticity.  (See the worksheet [pdf] for a précis of the analysis.)

Week 2
Labor Day Break: Monday, September 6
Tuesday, September 7: Derivation of the beam equations from linear elasticity (See the worksheet [pdf] for a précis of the analysis.)
Thursday, September 9: Derivation of the plate equations.

Week 3
Tuesday, September 14. Summary of the plate equations and edge boundary conditions.  One dimensional plate deformation.  Timoshenko's analysis.
Thursday, September 16.  Very thin plates vs moderately thin plates -- when you use the biharmonic equation.  Edge moment loading. Edge moments from the biharmonic equation.

Week 4: Plate deformations: Gould chapter 10 and Timoshenko selections from chapters 4-6.
Tuesday, September 21: Eigenfunctions.  (Take a look at Appendix V from Chandrasekhar for an example of one-d eigenfunctions.  The cylindrical ones will be useful next week.  You may also want to look at Gibbs' phenomenon.)  Simply-supported rectangular plates.  (See calculational paradigm, a set of different loading conditions, and an assessment of truncation error for a point load.)
Thursday, September 23: Lévy-Nadai techniques, uniformly loaded plates, a specific engineering example

Week 5
Tuesday, September 28: Cylindrical plates under axisymmetric loading
Thursday, September 30

Week 6
Fall Break: Monday, October 4
Tuesday, October 5
Thursday, October 7

Week 7
Tuesday, October 12
Thursday, October 14

Week 8
Tuesday, October 19
Thursday, October 21

Week 9
Tuesday, October 26
Thursday, October 28

Week 10
Tuesday, November 2
Thursday, November 4

Week 11
Tuesday, November 9
Thursday, November 11

Week 12
Tuesday, November 16
Thursday, November 18

Week 13
Tuesday, November 23
Thanksgiving Break, classes end at noon: Wednesday, November 24

Week 14
Tuesday, November 30
Thursday, December 2

Week 15
Tuesday, December 7
Thursday, December 9

Last Day of Classes: Friday, December 10
Week 16
Final Exam: To Be Announced