Abstract

A general isoperimetric inequality for the collapse loads of uniformly loaded, edge supported rigid-plastic plates of arbitrary shape is established. The inequality provides a lower bound to this load and involves just the length of the perimeter and the area of the collapsing region of the plate. This paper establishes a proof, under certain restrictions, of this inequality which to-date has been just a conjecture.

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