A specialized nonlinear thin plate inextensional bending theory

✍ Scribed by S.F. Borg

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 804 KB
• Volume: 274
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(62)90399-x

✦ Synopsis

The present paper describes a fundamentally different approach to the nonlinear plate theory. Based upon an analogy between linear elasticity theory and linear thin plate theory, the development herein presented introduces a "moment tensor," a nonlinear "curvature tensor," boundary conditions on moment, torque and loadings, a nonlinear relation between moment and curvature tensors and nonlinear curvature compatibility conditions.

It must be emphasized that the theory and relations presented herein are postulated;

there is no assurance that solutions of physical interest exist.