On the Thermal Buckling Response of Shear-Flexible All-Edge Clamped Rectangular Plates

Abstract

Using an analytical approach, we investigate a thermal stability response for a rectangular plate with all-edge clamped boundary conditions. We consider the first-order shear deformation theory that utilizes shear flexible response, in order to obtain three highly coupled governing partial differential equations in three unknowns: one transverse displacement, and two independent rotations of the normal. The solution functions are assumed in the form of double Fourier series that satisfy the boundary conditions, as well as the partial differential equations. The results obtained from the analytical solution are compared with available finite element solutions. These analytically obtained results can be capitalized to check the accuracy of various approximate methods.

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