Published data on the maximum principal elastic stresses and deflections for thin, initially flat, square, isotropic plates under uniform normal pressure, supplemented by data provided by university and industrial sources, are correlated to produce design curves for four conditions of edge restraint. The trends disclosed by the correlation are discussed and the sources from which the data were obtained are briefly reviewed.
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