C&EE 232 · CEE 232Theory of Plates and Shells
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Small and large deformation theories of thin plates; energy methods; free vibrations; membrane theory of shells; axisymmetric deformations of cylindrical and spherical shells, including bending.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 130.
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C&EE 232
1 direct requisite. Showing 6 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
C&EE 232
- C&EE 233Mechanics of Composite Material Structures
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.