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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
Uniform load over entire plate
a/b 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 3 4
beta 0.2874 0.3762 0.453 0.5172 0.5688 0.6102 0.7134 0.741
alpha 0.0444 0.0616 0.077 0.0906 0.1017 0.111 0.1335 0.14
gamma 0.42 0.455 0.478 0.491 0.499 0.503 0.505 0.502
Simply supported rectangular plate with uniform loading
0.8
0.7 f(x) = − 0.00336683549 x⁴ + 0.05698777324 x³ − 0.3669440277 x² + 1.0756433252 x − 0.47614668044
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
0.1 f(x) = − 0.00045017532 x⁴ + 0.00864897934 x³ − 0.06203348659 x² + 0.19878242669 x − 0.10109846986
0
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5
a/b
Central load over small radius
a/b 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.5
beta 0.435 0.65 0.789 0.875 0.927 0.958 1
alpha 0.1267 0.1478 0.1621 0.1715 0.1777 0.1805 0.1851
Simply supported rectangular plate with central loading
12
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
Displacement along the length for central loading