Plates and Shells (2.081)

Graduate course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), 2024

As a guest lecturer, my task was to introduce students to the Galerkin approaches and their various formulations for plates and shells. I also developed a basic Python code for the analysis of thick plates based on Mindlin theory with hybrid finite element formulation.

Plate FEM
Eigen modes of a circular thick plate meshed with QUAD8 (second order) finite elements.