Abstract
Elastic stresses, deflections and critical pressures for various modes of failure of a rectangular box placed in a uniform external pressure field are analyzed by a classical linear plate theory. The field equations governing the deflection of an orthotropic plate are solved by means of a superposition scheme and a method of single series expansion. The over-all solution for the entire box is arrived at by imposing continuity conditions at the edges where the individual plates meet. The method of analysis presented here is also adaptable to boxes on which external compressive loads are not uniformly distributed, but are self-equilibrating.
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