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Buckling and Post-buckling Behaviour of Plates with Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

D Ritchie  and
J Rhodes
D Ritchie
Affiliation:
Naval Construction Research Establishment, Dunfermline
J Rhodes
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
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This paper gives details of theoretical and experimental investigations into the behaviour of simply-supported uniformly compressed square and rectangular plates with central circular holes. The theoretical analysis employs an approximate approach using a combination of Rayleigh-Ritz and finite-element methods. The experimental investigation consisted of a number of experiments on plates with hole diameters from one- to seven-tenths of the plate width. Agreement between experiment and theory is shown to be good at buckling. In the post-buckling range it is found that the theoretical analysis is reasonably accurate for small holes, but loses accuracy when dealing with large holes.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 281 - 296
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1975

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