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Buckling of a Plate

Buckling of a Plate

Buckling of a Plate

(OP)
Just looking for some good recommendations for literature or resources on steel plate buckling.  This would be for situations with pin-pin or fix-fix plates in compression.  Either from bending or just straight axial load.  Just wondering what you guys use.  

RE: Buckling of a Plate

It might help to know a little bit more about the application.

AISC has information on thin compression elements that can be used in some cases.  Or if two sides of a plate were free, it could be treated as a column.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

(OP)
No particular application.  I'm just an EIT wanting to learn about the buckling properties of steel plates.  I see it come up from time to time, and the engineers I know seem to just go for a conservative approach.  If you want an example....lets just say you have a plate in pure axial compression, sides are free, supports are fixed.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

If the sides are free, it's just a column- look into column buckling formulas.

If it's a structural application, a flat plate will usually be a part of a beam or composite girder, and buckling would be treated accordingly.  AISC ASD/LRFD has design criteria for thin compression elements that would be applicable.

If it's shaped into a cylinder, that's a different issue, and a number of tank and vessel codes as well as AISC have guidelines for compressive buckling or external pressure buckling.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

Loui1,

Look for Timoshenko's book, Plate and Shell Theory.  It can be a little hard to read at times.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

Roark's Formulas for stress and strain

RE: Buckling of a Plate

Timoshenko has another book titled "Theory of Elastic Stability" which discusses rod, plate and shell buckling theory.  Reading Timoshenko is like taking a drink of water, except not from a drinking fountain but a fire hose!

If you just want the answers, Roarks is one way to go.  I don't have a copy but have often borrowed my neighbors.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

The AISC 2005 spec has design equations for strong-axis bending of plates WRT LTB.  You can start there and check out the references used by the manual.

The AISI also has similar provisions for plate buckling.  I wuold do the same, check out what references were used to derive the code equations.

Books on plate and shell theory and theory of elasticity are also good bets, but put your thinking cap on to go through them.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

Timoshenko's "Theory of Elastic Stability" is a good book, but also very dated.  A number of the issues he discusses have been vastly improved upon since the book was written.  "Theory of Plates and Shells" is more useful, more modern (1959, I think), but doesn't discuss stability problems.

RE: Buckling of a Plate

Buckling of plates is covered in depth in the NASA Astronautics Structures Manual Volume 2 Section C2 (page 691 of the pdf file). It is free and is linked here.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760071126_1976071126.pdf

Buckling of all shapes of plates with all boundary conditions and varying applied loads are covered.  It's an aerospace manual but a plate is a plate no matter what industry.

Regards

RE: Buckling of a Plate

(OP)
Now that's one hell of a manual.  Granted it's from 1971, I think it'd hold up in court, no?

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