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Thin circular plates under certain distributions of normal loading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

W. A. Bassali  and
R. H. Dawoud
W. A. Bassali
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
R. H. Dawoud
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
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The problem of a concentrated normal force at any point of a thin clamped circular plate was treated in terms of infinite series by Clebsch [1], who gave the general solution of the biharmonic equation D∇4w = p. Using the method of inversion Michell [2] found a solution for the same problem in finite terms. The method of complex potentials was used by Dawoud [3] to solve the problem of an isolated load on a circular plate under certain boundary conditions. Applying Muskhelishvili's method Washizu [4] obtained the same results for clamped and hinged boundaries. The complex variable method was applied by the authors [5] to obtain solutions for a thin circular plate having an eccentric circular patch symmetrically loaded with respect to its centre under a particular form of boundary condition defining certain types of boundary constraints which include the usual clamped and hinged boundaries as well as other special cases. Flügge [6] gave the solution for a linearly varying load over the complete simply supported circular plate. Using complex variable methods Bassali [7] found the solution for the same load distributed over the area of an eccentric circle under the boundary conditions mentioned before [5], and the authors [8] obtained the solutions for general loads of the type cos nϑ(or sinnϑ), spread over the area of a circle concentric with the plate. In this paper the solutions for a circular plate subjected to the same boundary conditions are obtained when the plate is acted upon by the following types of loading: (a) a concentrated load at an arbitrary point; (b) a line load spread on any part of a diameter; (c) a load distributed over the area of a sector of the plate; (d) a concentrated couple at an arbitrary point of the plate. As a limiting case we find the deflexion at any point of a thin elastic plate having the form of a half plane clamped along the straight edge and subject to an isolated couple at any point.

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Mathematika , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , December 1956 , pp. 144 - 152
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Copyright © University College London 1956

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