Deformation and Mechanical Behaviors of SCSF and CCCF Rectangular Thin Plates Loaded by Hydrostatic Pressure

Abstract

Elastic rectangular thin plate problems are very important both in theoretical research and engineering applications. Based on this, the flexural deformation functions of the rectangular thin plates with two opposite edges simply supported, one edge clamped and one edge free (SCSF) and three edges clamped and one edge free (CCCF), loaded by hydrostatic pressure are determined by single trigonometric series. And the flexural deformation functions are solved via the principle of minimum potential energy. Next, the internal force and stress functions of rectangular thin plates with two boundary conditions are obtained based on the small deflection bending theory of thin plates. The dimensionless deflection, dimensionless internal force, and dimensionless stress functions of the rectangular thin plates are established as well. The analytic solution in this paper is validated by the finite element method. Finally, the influence of aspect ratio λ and Poisson’s ratio μ on the deformation and mechanical behaviors of the rectangle thin plates is analyzed in this paper. This research can provide references for the plane water gate problem in seaports and channels.