The buckling of a reinforced rectangular plate¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Jojić, Kosara V.

Affiliations: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia

Note: [1] This paper represents a part of author’s dissertation under the supervision of Prof. J.M. Klitchieff, Belgrade University, 1955. It was presented on the 3rd of June 1956 at the III Yugoslave Congress of Applied Mechanics in Bled and on the 11th of September 1956 at the IX International Congress of Applied Mechanics in Brussels.

Abstract: This paper investigates the buckling of a flat reinforced rectangular plate with simply supported edges subjected to uniform compression. The reinforcement consists of equidistant stiffeners parallel to the edges of the plate. A solution is obtained by expressing the deflection as a double Fourier series and solving the equation of equilibrium. The buckling loads are given as the roots of an infinite determinental equation. Numerical results are evaluated for various combinations of longitudinal and transverse stiffeners, including the case when the number of transverse stiffeners tends to infinity.

DOI: 10.3233/ISP-1957-44003

Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 4, no. 40, pp. 647-669, 1957