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Buckling and vibration of stiffened panels or single plates with clamped ends

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posted on 2009-10-21, 08:29 authored by Andrew WatsonAndrew Watson, David Kennedy, F.W. Williams, Carol A. Featherston
An efficient method for the buckling and vibration analysis of plates or stiffened panels with clamped ends is presented. The method uses Lagrangian multipliers to couple sinusoidal modes with appropriate half-wavelengths of response, thereby enforcing the end conditions at discrete point supports. Clamped ends can usually be modelled accurately using only a few point supports, while arguments from symmetry often enable some of the required end conditions to be satisfied without explicitly applying constraints. In such cases few half-wavelengths are needed to obtain excellent accuracy. Solutions obtained for the simple limiting case of single plates are exact or within 1% of the classical or other reported solutions. Solutions obtained for stiffened panels are in close agreement with those obtained using finite element analysis.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Citation

WATSON, A. ... et al, 2003. Buckling and vibration of stiffened panels or single plates with clamped ends. Advances in Structural Engineering, 6 (2), pp. 135-144

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© Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2003

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This article was published in the journal, Advances in Structural Engineering [© Multi-Science]. It is also available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/136943303769013228

ISSN

1369-4332

Language

  • en

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