Effect of Imperfections on the Plastic Buckling of Rectangular Plates

1975 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Neale

The effect of initial imperfections in geometry on the plastic buckling of simply supported compressed rectangular plates is examined. The analysis, which is based on the application of a Reissner-type variational principle, indicates that the buckling load can be highly imperfection-sensitive; and that a consideration of small imperfections in geometry could provide results which compare favorably with experimental data.

1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Li ◽  
S. R. Reid

A plastic buckling analysis for axially compressed square tubes is described in this paper. Deformation theory is used together with the realistic edge conditions for the panels of the tube introduced in our previous paper (Li and Reid, 1990), referred to hereafter as LR. The results obtained further our understanding of a number of problems related to the plastic buckling of axially compressed square tubes and simply supported rectangular plates, which have remained unsolved hitherto and seem rather puzzling. One of these is the discrepancy between experimental results and the results of plastic buckling analysis performed using the incremental theory of plasticity and the unexpected agreement between the results of calculations based on deformation theory for plates and experimental data obtained from tests conducted on tubes. The non-negligible difference between plates and tubes obtained in the present paper suggests that new experiments should be carried out to provide a more accurate assessment of the predictions of the two theories. Discussion of the results herein also advances our understanding of the compact crushing behavior of square tubes beyond that given in LR. An important conclusion reached is that strain hardening cannot be neglected for the plastic buckling analysis of square tubes even if the degree of hardening is small since doing so leads to an unrealistic buckling mode.


1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (703) ◽  
pp. 607-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Mills

In ref. (1) Pope presents a theoretical analysis of the buckling of rectangular plates tapered in thickness under uniform load in the direction of taper. An experimental investigation into the end load buckling problem for a plate having simply-supported edges with the sides prevented from moving normally in the plane of the plate is described in ref. (2). For these boundary conditions the theoretical solution is exact. However, the compatability equation is not satisfied exactly when the sides are free to move in the plane of the plate. This experimental investigation demonstrates that the buckling load is nevertheless adequately predicted by the analysis in these circumstances.


2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 6469-6475
Author(s):  
Qing Cao ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Hao Zhang

Wind turbine towers are belonging to towering cylinder shell structures, which are easy to appear buckling instability under wind or other complicated loads, and on which integral elastic-plastic buckling analyses have great theoretical and practical significances. This paper used large deflection nonlinear pre-buckling and Koiter initial post-buckling theories, and adopted the finite element scheme of updated integration algorithm and LDC nonlinear solution method, then analyzed the linear buckling, elastic-plastic static buckling, and post-buckling response of the towers with initial imperfections in different location and size. It has obtained that: 1) the critical load of towers with elastic-plastic buckling is much smaller than it with elastic buckling; 2) gravity has certain influence on the critical buckling load; 3) the critical buckling load is insensitive to initial imperfections, meanwhile the imperfections which located on the top or the bottom of the tower are inferior for the stability of tower.


1942 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. A171-A174
Author(s):  
Samuel Levy

Abstract This paper presents an exact solution in terms of infinite series of the problem of buckling by compressive forces in one direction of a rectangular plate with built-in edges (zero slope, zero displacement in the direction normal to the plane of the plate). The buckling load is calculated for 14 ratios of length to width, ranging in steps of 0.25 from 0.75 to 4. On the basis of convergence, as the number of terms used in the infinite series is increased, it is estimated that the possible error in the numerical results presented is of the order of 0.1 per cent. A comparison is given with the work of other authors.


Author(s):  
Shiro Kato ◽  
Shoji Nakazawa ◽  
Yoichi Mukaiyama ◽  
Takayuki Iwamoto

The present study proposes an efficient scheme to estimate elastic-plastic buckling load of a shallow grid dome stiffened by diagonal braces. The dome is circular in plan. It is assumed to be subject to a uniform vertical load and to be supported by a substructure composed of columns and anti-earthquake braces. Based on FEM parametric studies considering various configurations and degrees of local imperfections, a set of formulations are presented to estimate the elastic-plastic buckling load. In the scheme, the linear buckling load, elastic buckling load, and imperfection sensitivity are first presented in terms of related parameters, and the elasticplastic buckling load is then estimated by a semi-empirical formula in terms of generalized slenderness ratio using a corresponding plastic load. For the plastic load, the present scheme adopts a procedure that it is calculated by a linear elastic FEM analysis, while an alternative formula for the plastic load is also proposed based on a shell membrane theory. The validity of the estimation scheme is finally confirmed through comparison with the results based on FEM nonlinear analysis. The formulations are so efficient and simple that the estimation may be conducted for preliminary design purposes almost with a calculator. .


1966 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Djubek

SummaryThe paper presents a solution of the non-linear problem of the deformation of slender rectangular plates which are stiffened along their edges by elastically compressible stiffeners flexible in the plane of the plate. The webplate is assumed to be simply-supported along its contour. Numerical results showing the effect of flexural and normal rigidity of stiffeners are given for a square webplate loaded by shear and compression.


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