Accession Number:
AD0836983
Title:
PLATE BUCKLING ANALYSIS BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD.
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis,
Corporate Author:
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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Report Date:
1968-06-01
Pagination or Media Count:
48.0
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
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Subject Categories:
- Theoretical Mathematics
- Mechanics