PLATE BUCKLING ANALYSIS BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD.

Abstract

An investigation was made of the buckling of rectangular plates with free, simply supported, or clamped edges and loaded in uniform compression or pure shear. The finite element method with a rectangular, sixteen-degree-of-freedom element was used. Results show that, for the same order of error, this element allows much coarser plate divisions than a widely used twelve-degree-of-freedom element. An order of magnitude reduction in the required order of the assembled stiffness and stability coefficient matrices results. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0836983

Entities

People

  • William Grant Carson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buckling
  • Coefficients
  • Compression
  • Failure (Mechanics)
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Flexural Properties
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical Phenomena
  • Stiffness

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Structural Dynamics.