Plate_Rectangular.

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To determine deflection of a simply supported rectangular plate
By Alex Slocum, 01/01/04, last modified 7/28/18
Enters numbers in BOLD, Results in RED
Schematic

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) 165

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) = - 0.0033668355x^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 + 0.0704825848
alpha
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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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

3252x - 0.4761466804

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

4267x - 0.1010984699
beta
Polynomial
(beta)
alpha
Polynomial
(alpha)
Displacement along the length for uniform loading

Displacement along the length for central loading

Author Date Change
Alex Slocu 1/1/2004
Xue'en Yan 9/21/2004
Nico Meijer 7/28/2018 Corrected error in Analysis:C42 formula