THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS S. TIMOSHENKO Professor Emeritus of Engineering Mechanics Stanford University S. WOINOWSKY-KRIEGER Professor of Engineering Mechanics CATALOGUEO Laval University LIBRARY 24 SUIL 1989 SECOND EDITION McGRAW-HIL CANADAIR LIMITED McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY New York St.Louis San Francisco Auckland Bogoté Hamburg London Madrid Mexico Milan Montreal New Delhi Panama Paris Sao Paulo Singapore Sydney Tokyo TorontoENGINEERING SOCIETIES MONOGRAPHS Bakhmeteff: Hydraulics of Open Channels Bleich: Buckling Strength of Metal Structures Crandall: Engineering Analysis Elevatorski: Hydraulic Energy Dissipators Leontovich: Frames and Arches Nadai: Theory of Flow and Fracture of Solids Timoshenko and Gere: Theory of Elastic Stabitity Timoshenko and Goodier: Theory of Elasticity Timoshenko and Woinowsky-Krieger: Theory of Plates and Shells Five national engineering societies, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, have an arrangement with the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., for the production of a series of selected books adjudged to possess usefulness for engineers and industry. 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ISBN O0-07?-0b4779-8 30 31 32 33 % 35 VBA VBA 8921098PREFACE Since the publication of the first edition of this book, the application of the theory of plates and shells in practice has widened considerably, and some new methods have been introduced into the theory. To take these facts into consideration, we have had to make many changes and addi- tions. The principal additions are (1) an article on deflection of plates due to transverse shear, (2) an article on stress concentrations around a cir- cular hole in a bent plate, (8) a chapter on bending of plates resting on an elastic foundation, (4) a chapter on bending of anisotropic plates, and (5) a chapter reviewing certain special and approximate methods used in plate analysis. We have also expanded the chapter on large deflections of plates, adding several new cases of plates of variable thickness and some numerical tables facilitating plate analysis. In the part of the book dealing with the theory of shells, we limited ourselves to the addition of the stress-function method in the membrane theory of shells and some minor additions in the flexural theory of shells. The theory of shells has been developing rapidly in recent years, and several new books have appeared in this field. Since it was not feasible for us to discuss these new developments in detail, we have merely re- ferred to the new bibliography, in which persons specially interested in this field will find the necessary information. S. Timoshenko S. Woinowsky-KriegerCONTENTS Preface Notation Introduction . Chapter 1. Bending of Long Rectangular Plates to a Cylindrical Surface 1. 2 3. ee 8. Differential Equation for Cylindrical Bending of Plates Cylindrical Bending of Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Plates with Simply Supported Edges. . Cylindrical Bending of Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Plates with Built-in Edges Cylindrical Bending of Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Plates with Blasti- cally Built-in Edges ‘The Effect on Stresses and Deflections of Small Displacements of Longi- tudinal Edges in the Plane of the Plate. oe ‘An Approximate Method of Calculating the Parameter u Long Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Plates Having a Small Initial Cylin- drical Curvature . a Cylindrical Bending of a Plate on an Elastic Foundation Chapter 2. Pure Bending of Plates 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14, Slope and Curvature of Slightly Bent Plates Relations between Bending Moments and Curvature in Pure Bending of Plates Particular Cases of Pure Bending Strain Energy in Pure Bending of Plates Limitations on the Application of the Derived Formulas Thermal Stresses in Plates with Clamped Edges . Chapter 38. Symmetrical Bending of Circular Plates 15. 16. es 18. 19. 20. Differential Equation for Symmetrical Bending of Laterally Loaded ‘Cire cular Plates... 7 ae ee Uniformly Loaded Circular Plates Circular Plate with a Circular Hole at the Center Circular Plate Concentrically Loaded . Circular Plate Loaded at the Center Corrections to the Elementary Theory of Symmetrical Bending “of ‘Ce sd cular Plates Ge secre acre sesamin ase saad gasssauscausge Chapter 4. Small Defiections of Laterally Loaded Plates 21. The Differential Equation of the Deflection Surface. . . . . - vii xiit 13 17 24 27 30 33 33 37 42 47 49 51viii 22. 23. 24, 25. 26. CONTENTS Boundary Conditions Alternate Method of Derivation of the Boundary Conditions | Reduction of the Problem of Bending of a Plate to That of Deflection of a Membrane : Effect of Elastic Constants on the Magnitude of Bonding Moments Exact Theory of Plates . : Loe Chapter 5. Simply Supported Rectangular Plates 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. Simply Supported Rectangular Plates under Sinusoidal Load Navier Solution for Simply Supported Rectangular Plates Further Applications of the Navier Solution. . Alternate Solution for Simply Supported and Uniformly Loaded Rectang lar Plates | Simply Supported Rectangular Plates under Hydrostatic Pressure Simply Supported Rectangular Plate under a Load in the Form of a Tri- angular Prism : : . Partially Loaded Simply Supported Rectangular Plate Concentrated Load on a Simply Supported Rectangular Plate Bending Moments in a Simply Supported Rectangular Plate with a Con- centrated Load : Rectangular Plates of Infinite Length with Simply Supported Edges Bending Moments in Simply Supported Rectangular Plates under a Load Uniformly Distributed over the Arca of a Rectangle... : ‘Thermal Stresses in Simply Supported Rectangular Plates . ‘The Effect of Transverse Shear Deformation on the Bending of Thin Plates Rectangular Plates of Variable Thickness . : a Chapter 6. Rectangular Plates with Various Edge Conditions 41. 42, 43. 44, 45. 46. 47. 48. 49, 50. 51. Bending of Rectangular Plates by Moments Distributed along the Bages . Rectangular Plates with Two Opposite Edges Simply Supported and the Other Two Edges Clamped . Rectangular Plates with Three Edges Simply Supported and One Dake Built In : Rectangular Plates with All Edges Built In| | Rectangular Plates with One Edge or Two Adjacent Edges Simply Sup- ported and the Other Edges Built In Rectangular Plates with Two Opposite Edges Simply Supported, the Third Edge Free, and the Fourth Edge Built In or Simply Supported . Rectangular Plates with Three Edges Built In and the Fourth Edge Free Rectangular Plates with Two Opposite Edges Simply Supported and the Other Two Edges Free or Supported Elastically Rectangular Plates Having Four Edges Supported stcally or Resting on Corner Points with All Edges Free : : Semi-infinite Rectangular Plates under Uniform Pressure Semi-infinite Rectangular Plates under Concentrated Loads Chapter 7. Continuous Rectangular Plates. 52. 53, 54, 55. 56. Simply Supported Continuous Plates s Approximate Design of Continuous Plates with Equal Spans Loe Bending of Plates Supported by Rows of Equidistant Columns (Flat Slabs) Flat Slab Having Nine Panels and Slab with Two Edges Free. . Effect of a Rigid Connection with Column on Moments of the Flat Slab. 105 108 lll 113 124 130 135 141 143 149 158 162 165 173 180, 180, 185 192 197 205, 208, 21 214 218 221 225 229 229 236 245 253 257