Proceedings of the 1996 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Seminar, July 22-27, in the city of Quebec.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derivation and justification of plate models by variational methods ; Simple triangular shell elements for large strain estimations of sheet metal forming parts ; Some approximation methods for linear thin shell problems ; Numerical analysis of piezoelectric shells ; Etude intrinseque d'un probleme de coque en grandes deformations ; Locking-free mixed stabilized finite element methods for bending-dominated shells ; Un element de coque simple a trois nuds en grandes rotations et elastoplasticite ; Intrinsic nonlinear models of shells ; Convergence of the linear 1,1) and 2,1) thin shells to asymptotic shells ; Two-level overlapping Schwarz methods for plate elements on unstructured meshes using non-matching coarse grids ; Large elasto-plastic deformations of thin shells with application to the stamping of anisotropic sheet metal parts ; Justification of two-dimensional linear shell models by the use of Gamma convergence theory ; Numerical simulation of high-rate stamping of tubes and sheets ; An intrinsic form of the stress resultant geometrically exact shell theory ; Numerical inf-sup analysis of MITC plate bending elements ; Optimisation des plaques et coques ; Vibroacoustic behavior of a rectangular box ; Error analysis of mixed finite elements for cylindrical shells