Deflections in Thin Plates

By
Prashant B. Kote
MIS No. 131701009
Sr. No. 19

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 Overview

Introduction

Important Terminology in plate bending

Governing equation of deflection for rectangular plates

Navier’s Solution for deflection using double sine series

Example, Solution for deflection in a rectangular plate

References

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 Introduction
Bending of plates, refers to the deflection of a plate
perpendicular to the plane of the plate under the action of
external forces and moments.
Deflections are one of the important parameters in design of
structural systems due to serviceability criteria.
The amount of deflection can be determined by solving the
differential equations of an appropriate plate theory.
Also stresses in the plate can be calculated from these
deflections. Once the stresses are known, failure theories can
be used to determine whether a plate will fail under a given
load.

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 Important
terminology

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 Important terminology

  a thin rectangular plate of thickness h, Young's modulus E,

For

and Poisson's ratio (nu) , we can define parameters in terms of

the plate deflection, w
 The flexural rigidity is given by

 Moments
The bending moments per unit length are given by

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Twisting Moments

The bending moments per unit length are given by

 Shear Forces

The shear forces per unit length are given by

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Stresses
The bending stresses are given by

 The shear stress is given by

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Strains

The bending strains for small-deflection theory are given by

 The shear strain for small-deflection theory is given by

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Governing equation
of deflection for
rectangular plates

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 Governing equation of deflection

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Force Summation in z direction gives

from which we get

 Moment Summation about x axis gives

from which we get

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Similarly Moment Summation about y axis gives

from which we get

and

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  know
We

Finally substituting equations of , and We get

This is the governing differential equation for thin plate,

Also called as Langrange’s equation

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Above differential equation can be rewritten as

Here,
is called the biharmonic operator

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Navier’s Solution for
rectangular plates

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 Navier’s solution for rectangular plates

  1820, Navier presented a paper to the French Academy of

In
Sciences on the solution of bending of simply supported plates by
double trigonometric series.
 He Considered a rectangular plate of sides a and b, simply
supported on all edges and subjected to a uniform load The origin
of the coordinates is placed at the upper left corner as shown in Fig
 The boundary conditions for a simply supported plate are the
following

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 

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  this case, the solution of the governing differential

In
equation, i.e., the expressions of the deflection surface,
�(�,�), and the distributed surface load, �(�,�), have to
be sought in the form of an infinite Fourier series

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  determine the Fourier coefficients , each side of Eq. is

To
multiplied by and integrated twice between the limits 0;a and 0;b,
as follows

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  can be shown by direct integration that

It
0 if m  l

a/2 if m = l

0 if n  k

b/2 if n = k

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  coefficient of the double Fourier expansion are therefore

The

Similarly we get

 Final equation of deflection surface we get

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 Example

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  determine the Fourier coefficients , each side of Eq. is

To
multiplied by and integrated twice between the limits 0;a and 0;b,
as follows

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  rectangular plate of sides a and b is simply supported on all edges

A
and subjected to a uniform pressure

By solving we get,

For even values of m and n = 0

)

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 
Max deflection occurs at x = a/2 and y = b/2

Lets take a =b (for square plate)

= 0.00416 ….(For first term only)

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  0.00416 ….(For first term only)

0.00406
Note:-
1. First term gives only 2.48% error.
(The solution is very fast converging to the exact solution)
2. Deflection obtained from double sine series is more than the exact
answer therefore its safer.

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Displacement for a rectangular plate

a = 1m and b = 0.5m with p(x,y) =
p0 = 5kN

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 References
1) Navier, C.L.M.N., Bulletin des Science de la Societe Philomarhique de
Paris, 1823.
2) Timoshenko, S.P. and Woinowski-Krieger, S., Theory of Plates and Shells,
2nd edn, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959.

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