Buckling of rectangular plates subjected to nonlinearly distribted in-plane loading

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Bucklingofrectangularplatessubjectedtononlinearlydistributedin-planeloading

CharlesW.Bert*,KrishnaK.Devarakonda*

SchoolofAerospaceandMechanicalEngineering,TheUniversityofOklahoma,865AspAv.,Room212,Norman,OK73019-1052,USAReceived14February2003;receivedinrevisedform14February2003

AbstractTheproblemofbucklingofarectangularplatesubjectedtouniformlydistributedin-planecompressiveloadingateachendgoesbacktotheworkofBryanin1890–91.Thesameproblem,forthecaseoflinearlyvaryingin-planecompressiveloadingateachend,wasfirsttreatedbyseveralEuropeaninvestigatorsabout90yearsago.Thecaseofloadingthatisnonlinearlydistributedalongtwooppositeplateedgesisconsiderablymorecomplicatedinthatitre-quiresthatfirsttheplaneelasticityproblembesolvedtoobtainthedistributionofin-planestresses.Thenthebucklingproblemmustbesolved.ThisproblemwasclaimedtohavebeensolvedbyvanderNeutin1958forahalf-sineloaddistributionandlaterbyBenoyforaparabolicdistribution.However,theirworkwasbasedonanincorrectin-planestressdistribution.Hereispresentedasolutionforthehalf-sineloaddistributionontwooppositesides,basedonamorerealisticin-planestressdistribution.Thisdistributionshowsadecrease(diffusion)inaxialstressasthedistancefromtheloadededgesisincreased.ThebucklingloadsarecalculatedusingGalerkinmethodandtheresultsarecomparedwiththeinaccurateresultsintheliterature.Ó2003ElsevierScienceLtd.Allrightsreserved.

Keywords:Buckling;Galerkinmethod;Nonlinearlydistributedload;Rectangularplates;Superpositionmethod

1.IntroductionTheproblemofbucklingofarectangularelasticplatesubjectedtoin-planecompressiveorshearloadingisimportantintheshipbuilding,aircraft,andautomotiveindustries.ThefirstworkinthisareawasduetoBryan(1890–91)(seeTimoshenkoandGere,1961,p.351).Bryanconsideredthecaseofuniformlydis-tributedcompressiveloadingandallfouredgessimplysupported.Thecasesofmorecomplicatedboundaryconditionshavebeensolvedbyinnumerableinvestigatorsthroughtheyears.Thecaseoflinearlyvaryingedgeloadingwasfirstconsideredindependentlyin1910byTimoshenkoandin1914byBoobnov,usingapproximatemethods(seeTimoshenkoandGere,1961,p.373).Thisload-ingcasewasalsoanalyzed,usingapproximatemethods,byWay(1936),Favre(1948),Grossman(1949),

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*Correspondingauthors.Tel.:+1-405-325-1736(C.W.Bert),+1-405-325-9835(K.K.Devarakonda);fax:+1-405-325-1088.

E-mailaddresses:cbert@ou.edu(C.W.Bert),kk_d28@yahoo.com(K.K.Devarakonda).

0020-7683/03/$-seefrontmatterÓ2003ElsevierScienceLtd.Allrightsreserved.doi:10.1016/S0020-7683(03)00205-1Noel(1952),McKenzie(1964),andDawe(1969).Recently,LeissaandKang(2001)andKangandLeissa(2001)solvedthissameproblemexactlyinaseriessense.Therehavebeenveryfewprevioussolutionsforthecaseofnonlinearlydistributededgeloadings.Perhapsthisscarcityisduetotheadditionalcomplexityofhavingtofirstsolvefortheinternalprestressdistributionasaprobleminplane-stresselasticity.ThefirstworkinthisareawasduetovanderNeut(1958),whoconsideredauniaxialcompressiveloadingwithahalfsinedistribution.TheworkofBenoy(1969)shouldalsobementioned.Heconsideredauniaxialcompressiveloadingwithaparabolicdistri-butionandobtainedanenergysolution.ItshouldbepointedoutthattheworksofvanderNeut(1958)andBenoy(1969)bothsufferedfromtheseseriousdeficiencies:

•Thex-directionin-planenormalstressdistributionwastacitlyassumedtodependonlyonthey-positioncoordinate.(Inactualitythereisastress-diffusionphenomenonwhichcausesthisstressdistributiontovarywithxaswellasy.)•Thecontributionsofthey-directionin-planenormalstressdistributionandthein-planeshearstressdis-tributionhavebeenignored.•Itwasassumedthatthebuckledwaveformandthusthebendingstrainenergyforthenonuniform-load-ingcaseisidenticaltothatforuniformloading.

Thegoalofthepresentworkistoremovethesedeficienciesandthustoachievemoreaccurateresultsforthebucklingload.

2.PreliminaryconsiderationsTheproblemgeometryandcoordinatesystemareshowninFig.1.ThefirstapproachinvestigatedherewastousethepolynomialformoftheAirystressfunction,systematizedbyNiedenfuhr(1957)andNeou(1957).Theresultingdistributionsofin-planestressessatisfiedcompatibility,vanishingshearstressesonallfouredges,andtheparabolicallydistributedloadingontheedgesatx¼Æa=2.Unfortunately,itwasnotpossibletosatisfytheconditionsofvanishingnormalstressesontheedgesy¼Æb=2.However,itwaspossibletohavetheresultantforce

Fy¼Za=2Àa=2hrydx

vanishaty¼Æb=2.Herehistheplatethickness.Nevertheless,themaximumvalueofryaty¼Æb=2wasðÀ2=3Þða=bÞ2r0,wherer0isthemaximumvalueoftheparabolicallydistributedrxatx¼Æa=2.Itisclear