The Bending and Stretching of Plates is written by one of the world's leading authorities on plate-behaviour. Although the mathematical content is necessarily high the aim is to give a clear physical insight into elastic plate behaviour; the style is thus appropriate to engineers and applied mathematicians. Small-deflexion theory is treated in Part 1 with a discussion of basic equations (including thermal effects and multi-layered anisotropic plates rectangular plates circular and other shaped plates plates whose boundaries are amenable to conformal transformation plates with variable thickness and approximate methods). Large-deflexion theory is treated in Part 2 in chapters dealing with basic equations and exact solutions approximate methods (including post-buckling behaviour) and asymptotic theories for very thin plates (including tension field theory and inextensional theory). Language: English