Clamped Skew Plate under Uniform Normal Loading

Abstract

In recent years a number of authors have analysed the bending of clamped skew plates under uniform pressure. Many of these solutions are very approximate. Favre and Dorman adopted the Ritz method and their expressions for displacement are restrictive. Based on the generalised method postulated by Lardy, Mirsky has presented a solution which involves considerable algebraic and arithmetic work. Komatsu's paper contains a solution using conformal mapping. Quinlan has given a powerful method to solve skew plate problems involving different boundary conditions and various types of loadings, but no numerical work has been done.