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

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

10
2

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

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

0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2

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

0.1
0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

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

f(x) =

Simply supported rectangular plate with central loading

12

10

8
beta

Polynomia
l (beta)
alpha

10

8
beta
Polynomia
l (beta)

alpha

0
1

1.2

1.4

1.6

1.8
a/b

2.2

2.4

4
0.741
0.14
0.502

5
0.7476
0.1417
0.501

orm loading

+ 1.0756433252x - 0.4761466804

beta
Polynomial
(beta)
+ 0.5696638864x + alpha
0.0704825848
Polynomial
(alpha)
gamma
Polynomial
(gamma)

+ 0.1987824267x - 0.1010984699

5.5

oading

beta
Polynomia
l (beta)
alpha

beta
Polynomia
l (beta)
alpha

2.4

Displacement along the length for uniform loading

Displacement along the length for central loading