HOMEWORK SOLUTONS

CHAPTER 2

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Figure 2.9

Exercise 1: Consider a simply-supported rectangular plate, as shown in Figure

2.9. The plate is loaded with a concentrated at load at ; i.e.,

is the Dirac Delta function and is constant concentrated load

1. Determine .
2. Write expressions for , , , , ,
, .
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Exercise 1 (Solution)

Therefore,

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Exercise 1 (Solution)

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Exercise 1 (Solution)

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Figure 2.10

Exercise 2: Consider again a simply-supported rectangular plate of size

as shown in Figure 2.10. The plate is loaded with patch load of size ;
i.e.,

, a constant, being the total load acting on the patch

1. Determine .
2. Write expressions for , , , , ,
, .
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Exercise 2 (Solution)

Expressions for , , , , ,
and can be developed in similar manner to those in Exercise 1.
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Figure 2.11

Exercise 3: Now the simply-supported rectangular plate, as shown in Figure

2.11, is subjected to a linearly varying load (hydrostatic pressure); i.e.,

1. Determine .
2. Write expressions for , , , , ,
, .
3. Use Plot3D in Mathematica to generate the resulting deflections in
Exercises 1, 2 & 3 (using sufficient elements in the series).
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Exercise 3 (Solution)

Expressions for , , , , ,
and can be developed in similar manner to those in Exercise 1.
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Exercise 3 (Solution)

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Exercise 2

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Exercise 3

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Figure 2.14

Exercise 1: Consider a rectangular plate, free ( ) at two opposite edges and

subjected to uniformly distributed load
1. Use Levy’s method to determine and .
2. Write expressions for , , and .

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Exercise 1 (Solution)

Solution for

Solution for : Solution of symmetric problem

General solution

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Exercise 1 (Solution)
BCs
/ /

/ /

Solving and for

and (using Mathematica) yields:

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Exercise 1 (Solution)

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Figure 2.15

Exercise 2: Now the simply-supported rectangular plate (SS-SS-SS-SS), as

shown in Figure 2.15, is subjected to a linearly varying load (hydrostatic
pressure); i.e.,

1. Use Levy’s method to determine .

2. Write expressions for , , , and .

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Exercise 2 (Solution)

Solution for

Solution for : Solution of symmetric problem

General solution

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Exercise 2 (Solution)
BCs
/ /

/ /

Solving and for and (using Mathematica)

yields:

Expressions for , , and can be developed

in similar manner to those in Exercise 1.

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Figure 2.16

Exercise 3: Consider a rectangular plate that is simply supported along the

four edges is acted on by moment uniformally distributed along the edges
at

1. Use Levy’s method to determine .

2. Write expressions for , , , and .

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Exercise 3 (Solution)

Solution for
No external loads:
Solution for : Solution of symmetric problem

General solution

BCs
/ /

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2.6 Homework Exercise 3 (Solution)
Writing in Fourier series

Solving and for and (using

Mathematica) yields:

Expressions for , , and can be developed

in similar manner to those in Exercise 1.
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Figure 2.19

Exercise: Use Levy’s method to determine the deflections and bending

moments in the three-span, simply supported continuous plate loaded as
shown in the Figure 2.19.
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Exercise (Solution)
1 4𝑝 𝑎 2𝑝
𝐴 = cosh 2𝜆 𝑎 − 1 1 + 0.5𝜆 csch 2𝜆 𝑎 + −𝜇 coth2 𝜆 𝑎 𝐵 =−
𝐷 sinh 2𝜆 𝑎 𝑏𝜆 𝜆 𝑎𝜆 𝐷
𝑝 1 2𝑝 1
𝐶 = 𝐷 = 1 − cosh 2𝜆 𝑎 − 𝜇
𝑎𝜆 𝐷 2𝐷 sinh 2𝜆 𝑎 𝑎𝜆 𝜆
𝑎
𝐴 = 𝜇 csch2 𝜆 𝑎 − 𝜇 coth2 𝜆 𝑎
𝐷 𝜆 sinh 2𝜆 𝑎
𝜇 1 1
𝐵 =0 𝐶 =− 𝐷 = −𝜇 +𝜇 cosh 2𝜆 𝑎
2𝐷𝜆 2𝐷 sinh2 𝜆 𝑎 𝜆
𝑎𝜇
𝐴 = csch2 𝜆 𝑎
𝐷𝜆
𝜇 𝜇 𝑚𝜋
𝐵 =0 𝐶 =− 𝐷 = coth2 𝜆 𝑎 𝜆 =
2𝐷𝜆 2𝐷𝜆 2𝑎

𝐴 cosh 2𝜆 𝑎 + 𝐵 sinh2 𝜆 𝑎 + 𝐶 sinh2𝜆 𝑎 + 2𝜆 𝑎 cosh2𝜆 𝑎 + 𝐷 (cosh2𝜆 𝑎 +

2𝜆 𝑎 sinh2𝜆 𝑎) = 𝐴 + 𝐷

𝐴 cosh2 𝜆 𝑎 + 𝐵 sinh2 𝜆 𝑎 + 𝐶 sinh2𝜆 𝑎 + 2𝜆 𝑎 cosh2𝜆 𝑎 + 𝐷 cosh2𝜆 𝑎 + 2𝜆 𝑎 sinh2𝜆 𝑎

=𝐴 +𝐷

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Exercise (Solution)

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2.10 Homework

Exercise: If a plate is loaded by a concentrated force applied at a point ( ,

). Show that the deflected surface equation of the plate reduces to:

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2.10 Homework Exercise (Solution)

If a plate is subjected to a concentrated a concentrated force applied at a

point ( , ).

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