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

simply supported
Plate dimensions and properties
Length a (mm)
Width, b (mm)
Thickness, t (mm)
Modulus of elasticity, E (N/mm^2)
Poisson ratio, v
Total area
a/b, aob
Loading
Uniform loading pressure over entire plate, q (N/mm^2)
Total load applied to the plate, W (N)
Uniform over small concentric circle of ro, qo (N/mm^2)
Load application radius, ro (mm)
Outer radius used in calculation, ro_prime (mm)
Total load applied to center of plate, Wo (N)
Simply supported outer boundary:
Distributed load:
Center displacement, dc (mm)
Bending stress at center (N/mm^2)
Reaction load at center of long side (N/mm)
Centrally applied concentrated load:
Center displacement, fdc (mm)
Bending stress at center (N/mm^2)

Values
300
200
1.5
200000
0.29
60000
1.50

ProE Simulation
300
200
1.5
200000
0.29

0.00017
10
10
2
2
126

0.00017

-0.033
1
0

-0.032

-1.248
189

-1.247

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

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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
beta
0.2874
0.3762
alpha
0.0444
0.0616
gamma
0.42
0.455

1.4
0.453
0.077
0.478

1.6
0.5172
0.0906
0.491

1.8
0.5688
0.1017
0.499

2
0.6102
0.111
0.503

3
0.7134
0.1335
0.505

4
0.741
0.14
0.502

Simply supported rectangular plate with uniform loading

0.8
y = -0.0034x4 + 0.057x3 - 0.3669x2 + 1.0756x - 0.4761
0.7
0.6

beta
alpha

0.5
y=

0.4

-0.0039x4

0.0536x3

0.2678x2

+ 0.5697x + 0.0705

gamma
Poly. (beta)

0.3

Poly. (alpha)
Poly. (gamma)

y = -0.0005x4 + 0.0086x3 - 0.062x2 + 0.1988x - 0.1011

0.2
0.1
0
0

a/b

Central load over small radius

a/b
1
1.2
beta
0.435
0.65
alpha
0.1267
0.1478

1.4
0.789
0.1621

1.6
0.875
0.1715

1.8
0.927
0.1777

2
0.958
0.1805

2.5
1
0.1851

Simply supported rectangular plate with central loading

1.2
y = 0.0156x5 - 0.2451x4 + 1.4992x3 - 4.4951x2 + 6.7069x - 3.0465
1

0.8
beta
alpha

0.6

Poly. (beta)
Poly. (alpha)

0.4
y = -0.0018x4 + 0.0378x3 - 0.2004x2 + 0.4177x - 0.1265
0.2

0
1

1.2

1.4

1.6

1.8
a/b

2.2

2.4

5
0.7476
0.1417
0.501

alpha
gamma
Poly. (beta)
Poly. (alpha)
Poly. (gamma)

beta
alpha
Poly. (beta)
Poly. (alpha)

Displacement along the length for uniform loading

Displacement along the length for central loading