This monograph, addressing researchers as well as engineers, is devoted to nonclassical thermoelastic modelling of the nonlinear dynamics of shells. Differential equations of different dimensionality and different type have to be combined and nonlinearities of different geometrical, physical or elasto-plastic categories are addressed. Special emphasis is given to the Bubnov--Galerkin method. It can be applied to many problems in the theory of plates and shells, even those with very complex geometries, holes and various boundary conditions. The authors made every effort to keep the text intelligible for both practitioners and graduate students, although they offer a rigorous treatment of both purely mathematical and numerical approaches presented so that the reader can understand, analyse and track the nonlinear dynamics of spatial systems (shells) with thermomechanical behaviours.

From the reviews: "A unique feature of this book is the nice blend of engineering vividness and mathematical rigour. [...] The authors are to be congratulated for their valuable contribution to the literature in the area of theoretical thermoelasticity and vibration of plates." Journal of Sound and Vibration

1 Introduction.- 2 Coupled Thermoelasticity and Transonic Gas Flow.- 2.1 Coupled Linear Thermoelasticity of Shallow Shells.- 2.1.1 Fundamental Assumptions.- 2.1.2 Differential Equations.- 2.1.3 Boundary and Initial Conditions.- 2.1.4 An Abstract Coupled Problem.- 2.1.5 Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions of Thermoelasticity Problems.- 2.2 Cylindrical Panel Within Transonic Gas Flow.- 2.2.1 Statement and Solution of the Problem.- 2.2.2 Stable Vibrating Panel Within a Transonic Flow.- 2.2.3 Stability Loss of Panel Within Transonic Flow.- 3 Estimation of the Errors of the Bubnov-Galerkin Method.- 3.1 An Abstract Coupled Problem.- 3.2 Coupled Thermoelastic Problem Within the Kirchhoff-Love Model.- 3.3 Case of a Simply Supported Plate Within the Kirchhoff Model.- 3.4 Coupled Problem of Thermoelasticity Within a Timoshenko-Type Model.- 4 Numerical Investigations of the Errors of the Bubnov-Galerkin Method.- 4.1 Vibration of a Transversely Loaded Plate.- 4.2 Vibration of a Plate with an Imperfection in the Form of a Deflection.- 4.3 Vibration of a Plate with a Given Variable Deflection Change.- 5 Coupled Nonlinear Thermoelastic Problems.- 5.1 Fundamental Relations and Assumptions.- 5.2 Differential Equations.- 5.3 Boundary and Initial Conditions.- 5.4 On the Existence and Uniqueness of a Solution.- 6 Theory with Physical Nonlinearities and Coupling.- 6.1 Fundamental Assumptions and Relations.- 6.2 Variational Equations of Physically Nonlinear Coupled Problems.- 6.3 Equations in Terms of Displacements.- 7 Nonlinear Problems of Hybrid-Form Equations.- 7.1 Method of Solution for Nonlinear Coupled Problems.- 7.2 Relaxation Method.- 7.3 Numerical Investigations and Reliability of the Results Obtained.- 7.4 Vibration of Isolated Shell Subjected to Impulse.- 7.5 Dynamic Stability of Shells Under Thermal Shock.- 7.6 Influence of Coupling and Rotational Inertia on Stability.- 7.7 Numerical Tests.- 7.8 Influence of Damping e and Excitation Amplitude A.- 7.9 Spatial-Temporal Symmetric Chaos.- 7.10 Dissipative Nonsymmetric Oscillations.- 7.11 Solitary Waves.- 8 Dynamics of Thin Elasto-Plastic Shells.- 8.1 Fundamental Relations.- 8.2 Method of Solution.- 8.3 Oscillations and Stability of Elasto-Plastic Shells.- 9 Unsolved Problems in Nonlinear Dynamics of Shells.- References.