Relaxation Methods Applied to Engineering Problems. VIIIA. Problems Relating to Large Transverse Displacements of Thin Elastic Plates
Relaxation Methods Applied to Engineering Problems. VIIIA. Problems Relating to Large Transverse Displacements of Thin Elastic Plates
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10.1098/rsta.1945.0005
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1945-11
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J. R. Green;R. Southwell
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J. R. Green;R. Southwell
Small transverse displacements of a flat elastic plate are governed by a single linear equation, but large displacements entail stretching of the middle surface and consequent tensions, which interacting with the curvatures (i.e. by 9membrane effect’) introduce non-linear terms into the conditions of equilibrium and so make those equations no longer independent. The second-order terms were formulated by von Karman in 1910, but the amended (‘large deflexion’) equations have been solved only in a few cases, and then with considerable difficulty. In this paper four examples are treated approximately by a technique based on relaxation methods. The first and second are relatively simple problems which have been solved exactly and so serve as test cases, viz. ( a ) a circular plate, with clamped edge, which sustains a uniform transverse pressure and ( b ) a circular plate, with ‘simply supported’ edge, which buckles with radial symmetry under uniform edge thrust. The third and fourth examples present great difficulties to orthodox analysis: they are ( c ) a square plate, sustaining uniform transverse pressure, of which the edges are clamped, ( d ) a square plate buckled by actions which, clamping its edges, tend initially to induce a state of uniform shear.