Abstract
The recently developed analytical strip method of solution for bending of orthotropic rectangular plates is extended in this study to stiffened rectangular plates. In this method, the plate is idealized as a system of plate strips and beam segments rigidly connected to each other. The behavior of the system is derived by imposing the edge and continuity conditions on the closed form solution of the individual plate strips and beam elements. The analytical strip method possesses the advantages of the semi-analytical finite strip method but avoids the polynomial representation and minimization procedure associated with it. Numerical results are presented for stiffened and unstiffened rectangular plates for different edge and loading conditions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 283-291 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Computers and Structures |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1988 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Modeling and Simulation
- General Materials Science
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications