ANALYTICAL AND MODEL STUDIES OF CONTINUOUS FOLDED PLATES
THE FINITE DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE IS USED TO OBTAIN A NUMERICAL SOLUTION FOR STRESS RESULTANTS AND DISPLACEMENTS OF CONTINUOUS FOLDED PLATE STRUCTURES. THE GOVERNING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF PLATE AND ELASTICITY THEORY ARE WRITTEN AS FOUR SECOND-ORDER EQUATIONS INVOLVING THREE DISPLACEMENTS AND A PLATE BENDING MOMENT. THIS TECHNIQUE ALLOWS THE USE OF A TRIDIAGONAL MATRIX ROUTINE FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE RESULTING DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FROM THREE ALUMINUM MODELS ARE COMPARED WITH THE VALUES PREDICTED BY THE THEORY. /ASCE/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Vol 94, No EM 5, PROC PAPER 6181, PP 1127-1158, 18 FIG, 10
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Authors:
- Goldberg, J E
- Gutzwiller, M J
- Lee, R H
- Publication Date: 1968-10
Media Info
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Serial:
- Journal of Engineering Mechanics
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- ISSN: 0733-9399
- EISSN: 1943-7889
- Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jenmdt
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bending moments; Continuous structures; Dislocation (Geology); Elasticity (Mechanics); Finite differences; Matrices (Mathematics); Numerical analysis; Stresses; Structural plates
- Uncontrolled Terms: Model tests
- Old TRIS Terms: Elastic theory; Folded plates
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00208876
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 31 1994 12:00AM