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.

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