Abstract
Exploring new analytic buckling solutions of cracked plates is of much importance for providing benchmark results and implementing preliminary structural designs based on explicit parametric analysis and optimization. However, the governing higher-order partial differential equations as well as the geometric discontinuity across a crack essentially complicate the problems, make it more intractable to seeking analytic solutions. This paper presents a first attempt to extend an up-to-date symplectic superposition method to linear buckling of side-cracked rectangular thin plates. The problems are introduced into the Hamiltonian system, and a side-cracked plate is then divided into several sub-plates that are analytically solved by the symplectic superposition method, where the symplectic eigenvalue problems are formulated, followed by the symplectic eigen expansion. Some elaborated mechanical quantities are imposed on the edges of each sub-plate, with multiple sets of constants determined by the actual boundary conditions of the cracked plate, free edge conditions along the crack, and interfacial continuity conditions among the sub-plates. The final analytic solution of a side-cracked plate is obtained by integration of the solutions of the sub-plates. Comprehensive benchmark results are tabulated and plotted for buckling loads and mode shapes of typical plates with a side crack from a simply supported edge, a clamped edge, or a free edge. The crack length effect is also investigated by the analytic solutions obtained. Due to the rigorous mathematical derivations without predetermination of solution forms, the present method provides a rational approach to exploring more analytic solutions.
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