Experimental verification of circular plate bending theory

✍ Scribed by Jacob Herrmann; C.S. Ades

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1956
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 841 KB
• Volume: 261
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(56)90123-5

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes an experimental investigation involving two circular ring plates under a concentrated load along the inner edge and freely supported along the outer edge.

The thickness of one plate was uniform, while that of the other decreased linearly from the bore to the rim. Strain measurements were taken at various radii to check the elementary elastic bending theory as applied to plates with both uniform and non-uniform profiles.

Later, the disks were loaded to virtual failure as indicated by excessive deflections in order to determine their rupture factors.

Finally, to evaluate the ultimate tensile strength needed for calculating those factors, a hardness check was made on just the uniform plate.