Buckling of Simply Supported Plates under Compressive Edge Loads

Governing Equations:

 The equation governing the buckling deflection is given by

We wish to determine a non-zero deflection w that satisfies the above equation

when the in plane forces are

 Navier Solution:
As in the case of bending, we select the following form of w that satisfies the
simply Supported boundary conditions at all four edges.

With and
Substituting in the GDE, we get

 The above equation must hold for every point (x,y) of the domain for non-trivial w
(i.e., 0). Hence, the expression inside the curly brackets should be zero for
every m and n. These yields

With
 Uniaxial Compression(K=0)
When , we have

An examination of the above expression shows that the smallest value of , for
any m, occurs for n=1.
 Buckling of Plates with two parallel edges Simply Supported
(Levy Method.)
Governing differential Equation:


Assume the solution in the form of a single Fourier series as


This solution satisfies the simply supported boundary conditions ( on edges

y=0,b ) as

and

Substituting the assumed series solution in GDE, we get for uniaxial

compression

General solution

with