Efficient Elements for Mindlin Beams and Plates
Two improvements to the conventional Mindlin two-node beam and three-node plate are presented. The first involves the order of the assumed displacement fields. The second involves simulation...
A New Finite Element Formulation of the Generalized Laminated Plate Theory
The Generalized Laminate Plate Theory (GLPT) predicts stress distributions in laminated composite plates with accuracy comparable to a full three-dimensional analysis. The original implementation...
Developments in the Use of Cubic B-Splines in the Compound Strip Method
A general cubic B-spline compound strip method (BCSM) has been developed to analyze thin plates, stiffened plates, folded plates, and box-girders. In the BCSM a problem is first partially...
Advanced Software for Thin Plate Analysis Using Unequally Spaced Cubic B-Splines
A computer program for analysis of thin plates is presented. This package improves upon previous analysis programs by incorporating a proven analytical method in an advanced user interface,...
Hydrodynamic Pressure on an Oscillating Vertical Plate
The hydrodynamic pressure on an oscillating vertical plate could be influenced by the effects of compressibility of fluids and surface waves. The compressibility is effective for higher...
The Moving Contact Line
The flow field around the moving contact line, generated by an impulsive, horizontal motion of a vertical plate, is studied numerically. The two-dimensional, unsteady Navier-Stokes equations,...
Free Vibration of Stepped Beams
This paper addresses the free vibration of a stepped Euler-Bernoulli beam using dynamic flexibility methods. The characteristic equation of the system is derived, from which the system...
Vibration of Plates with Corner Stress Singularities
A method of analysis is presented to determine the free vibration frequencies of plates having corner stress singularities. Displacements are assumed in the form of polynomials, and corner...
On the Solution of Plates and Shells Mixed Boundary Problems
Strain-stress state analysis on plates and shells under mixed boundary conditions is of significant practical value: a lot of problems, arisen in machine design, civil engineering etc.,...
Large Deflection of Simply Supported Inplane Loading Rectangular Plate Under Uniform Random Pressure
The procedure for obtaining an approximate solution for the mean-square deflection as well as maximum mean-square stress of geometrically nonlinear rectangular plate with arbitary power...
Elastic Stability of Non-Rectangular Plates
Non-rectangular plates may have infinite number of geometric configurations. Idealized pattern of practical shapes is chosen to be a sample for these plates. The present paper is concerned...
Poisson Instability of Laminated Composite Plates
The paper considers the uniaxial buckling of rectangular, anisotropic composite laminates with in-plane restrained unloaded edges where Poisson's effect is predominant to...
Buckling of Lamianted Plates Using h-p Finite Strips
The paper presents a computationally efficient alternative to the finite element method for the initial buckling analysis of long, shear-deformable composite laminates. In addition the...
Finite Element Stability of Eccentrically Stiffened Plates
A finite element model is developed to investigate the elastic stability of eccentrically stiffened rectangular plates. The formulation is based on the behavior of the plate-stiffener...
Sensitivity Analysis of Connection Stiffness in Orthogonal Frames with End-Plate Connections
According to AISC-LRFD specification (1986), two types of construction for steel frame structure can be assumed which are Type PR (partially restrained) and FR (fully restrained) constructions....
Computational Failure Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Plate Structures
The paper summarizes our recent effort in developing a suitable finite element code for the failure prediction of reinforced concrete structures. The basis of the development is a plasticity...
Safe-Load-Limit of Plates in Cylindrical Bending
The derivation of a closed-form expression for the viscoelastic critical load of long thin plates undergoing cylindrical bending and made of a linear time-dependent 'solid'-type...
Frictionless Contact of Composite Laminates
An approximate solution technique for determination of contact stress distribution under a curved, rigid punch indenting an arbitrary laminated composite plate is outlined. The individual...
Partial Hybrid Stress Element for Higher-Order Laminated Plates Theory
The partial hybrid stress method is applied to higher-order plate theory for orthotropic laminated plates. This new element performs better than displacement formulation and approaches...
Flexural and Extensional Motion of Moderately Thick Laminated Composite Plates
A general theory of flexural and extensional motion of moderately thick laminated composite plates is developed for linear elastic materials and small deformation. Interlaminar stresses...
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