Theories and Applications of Plate Analysis by Rudolph Szilard



Theories and Applications

of Plate Analysis

Classical, Numerical and Engineering Methods

Rudolph Szilard, Dr.-Ing., P.E.

Professor Emeritus of Structural Mechanics

University of Hawaii, United States

Retired Chairman, Department of Structural Mechanics

University of Dortmund, Germany


Introduction
Plates are straight, plane, two-dimensional structural components of which one dimension,

referred to as thickness h, is much smaller than the other dimensions. Geometrically

they are bound either by straight or curved lines. Like their counterparts, the

beams, they not only serve as structural components but can also form complete structures

such as slab bridges, for example. Statically plates have free, simply supported

and fixed boundary conditions, including elastic supports and elastic restraints, or, in

some cases, even point supports (Fig. I.1). The static and dynamic loads carried by

plates are predominantly perpendicular to the plate surface. These external loads are

carried by internal bending and torsional moments and by transverse shear forces.


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