Bending of an eccentrically loaded and concentrically supported thin circular plate. I

Abstract

AbstractWithin the limitations of the classical small deflexion theory of thin plates and using complex variable methods, exact expressions are obtained in series form for the deflexion at any point of a thin isotropic circular plate simply supported along a concentric circle and subject to loading symmetrically distributed over an eccentric circular patch which lies inside the circle of support. In special and limiting cases the solutions reduce to those obtained before.