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

Plate dimensions and properties Values

Length a (mm) 1380
Width, b (mm) 1380
Thickness, t (mm) 20
Modulus of elasticity, E (N/mm^2) 200000
Poisson ratio, v 0.29
Total area 1904400
a/b, aob 1.00
Loading
Uniform loading pressure over entire plate, q (N/mm^2) 0.50000
Total load applied to the plate, W (N) 43850
Uniform over small concentric circle of ro, qo (N/mm^2) 10
Load application radius, ro (mm) 2
Outer radius used in calculation, ro_prime (mm) 690
Total load applied to center of plate, Wo (N) 43850
Simply supported outer boundary:
Distributed load:
Center displacement, dc (mm) -49.641
Bending stress at center (N/mm^2) 681
Reaction load at center of long side (N/mm) 291
Centrally applied concentrated load:
Center displacement, fdc (mm) -6.618
Bending stress at center (N/mm^2) 480

From Roark & Young, Formulas for Stress and Strain, 5th eddition, page 386
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain

p = uniform surface pressure on plate (compressive) (Mpa) 0.5

r = radius of circular plate (mm) 690
t = plate thickness (mm) 22
E = Young's moudulus of elasticity (Mpa) 210000

σm = maximum stress (Mpa) 368.88 Mpa

ym = maximum deflection (mm) 8.67 mm
Interpolated parameters from curves:
Uniform loading
salpha 0.0438
sbeta 0.2862
sgamma 0.4221
Central loading
falpha 0.1268
fbeta 0.435

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) = - 0.0033668355x^4 + 0.0569877732x^3 - 0.3669440277x^2 + 1.0756433252x - 0.4761466804

0.6 beta
Polynomial
0.5 (beta)
f(x) = - 0.0038835418x^4 + 0.0536258711x^3 - 0.2677591905x^2 + 0.5696638864x + alpha
0.0704825848
0.4 Polynomial
(alpha)
gamma
0.3
Polynomial
(gamma)
0.2

0.1 f(x) = - 0.0004501753x^4 + 0.0086489793x^3 - 0.0620334866x^2 + 0.1987824267x - 0.1010984699

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

f(x) =
Simply supported rectangular plate with central loading

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10

8
beta
Polynomial
(beta)
f(x) =
Simply supported rectangular plate with central loading

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beta
Polynomial
(beta)
6 alpha
Polynomial
(alpha)

0
1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4
a/b
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0.7476
0.1417
0.501

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3252x - 0.4761466804

beta
Polynomial
(beta)
8864x + alpha
0.0704825848
Polynomial
(alpha)
gamma
Polynomial
(gamma)

4267x - 0.1010984699

beta
Polynomial
(beta)
beta
Polynomial
(beta)
alpha
Polynomial
(alpha)
Displacement along the length for uniform loading

Displacement along the length for central loading