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 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) 189

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
beta 0.2874 0.3762 0.453 0.5172 0.5688 0.6102 0.7134
alpha 0.0444 0.0616 0.077 0.0906 0.1017 0.111 0.1335
gamma 0.42 0.455 0.478 0.491 0.499 0.503 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
0.5 (beta)
f(x) = - 0.0038835418x^4 + 0.0536258711x^3 - 0.2677591905x^2 + 0.5696638864x + alpha
0.0704825848
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

12

10

8
beta
Polynomia
6 l (beta)
alpha

4
10

8
beta
Polynomia
6 l (beta)
alpha

0
1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4
a/b
 4 5
0.741 0.7476
0.14 0.1417
0.502 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 5.5

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