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Rectangular plates compressed by a series of in-plane loads: stability and stress distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

G. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, London
M. N. Pavlović
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, London

Summary

The exact solution to the stability of a simply supported rectangular plate loaded along two opposite edges by several equidistant point loads is presented. Criteria are derived which, if met, permit the true stress state throughout the plate to be radically simplified.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1983 

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Footnotes

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Now at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

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