Plate Rectangular
Plate Rectangular
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To determine deflection of a simply supported rectangular plate
By Alex Slocum, 01/01/04, last modified 09/21/04 by Xue'en Yang
Enters numbers in BOLD, Results in RED
Schematic
simply supported
Plate dimensions and properties Values ProE Simulation
Length a (mm) 300 300
Width, b (mm) 200 200
Thickness, t (mm) 1.5 1.5
Modulus of elasticity, E (N/mm^2) 200000 200000
Poisson ratio, v 0.29 0.29
Total area 60000
a/b, aob 1.50
Loading
Uniform loading pressure over entire plate, q (N/mm^2) 0.00017 0.00017
Total load applied to the plate, W (N) 10
Uniform over small concentric circle of ro, qo (N/mm^2) 10 10
Load application radius, ro (mm) 2 2
Outer radius used in calculation, ro_prime (mm) 2
Total load applied to center of plate, Wo (N) 126
Simply supported outer boundary:
Distributed load:
Center displacement, dc (mm) -0.033 -0.032
Bending stress at center (N/mm^2) 1
Reaction load at center of long side (N/mm) 0
Centrally applied concentrated load:
Center displacement, fdc (mm) -1.248 -1.247
Bending stress at center (N/mm^2) 189
From Roark & Young, Formulas for Stress and Strain, 5th eddition, page 386
Interpolated parameters from curves:
Uniform loading
salpha 0.0840938
sbeta 0.4869375
sgamma 0.4836563
Central loading
falpha 0.1676125
fbeta 0.8373188
0.6
beta
0.5
f(x) = − 0.0038835418 x⁴ + 0.05362587115 x³ − 0.26775919054 x² + 0.56966388636 x + 0.07048258478
Polynomial (beta)
0.4 alpha
Polynomial (alpha)
0.3 gamma
Polynomial (gamma)
0.2
0
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5
a/b
10
6
Simply supported rectangular plate with central loading
12
10
0
1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4
a/b
5
0.7476
0.1417
0.501
ng
2 x − 0.47614668044
beta
6 x + 0.07048258478
Polynomial (beta)
alpha
Polynomial (alpha)
gamma
Polynomial (gamma)
9 x − 0.10109846986
2 2.4
Displacement along the length for uniform loading