Boundary element analysis of shear deformable stiffened plates

Abstract

In this paper a boundary element formulation for analysis of shear deformable stiffened plates is presented. The formulation is derived by coupling boundary element formulation of shear deformable plate and two-dimensional plane stress elasticity. Both concentric and eccentric stiffeners have been considered. The interaction forces between stiffeners and the plate are treated as either line distribution or area distribution of body forces along the attachment. A rectangular stiffened plate and a circular stiffened plate under uniform load are analysed by the proposed method. Good agreement has been achieved compared with other published results.