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
• Authors:
  • Goldberg, J E
  • Gutzwiller, M J
  • Lee, R H
• Publication Date: 1968-10

Media Info

• 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