Unstable Fracture of Mild Steel Plate under Stretching and Plate Bending

Closure of a through Crack in a Plate under Bending

Abstract-A plate with a pre-existent through crack is considered under the action of a remote bending moment and a remote in-plane force. The problem statement is reduced to the solution of two coupled integral equations with strongly singular kernels. The independent variables in the latter equations are the closure displacement and rotation angle. The corresponding closure force and moment di...

Superconvergent eigenvalue bending plate element

Mechanical Behavior of BFRP-Steel Composite Plate under Axial Tension

Combining the advantages of basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) material and steel material, a novel BFRP-steel composite plate (BSP) is proposed, where a steel plate is sandwiched between two outer BFRP laminates. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the mechanical behavior of the proposed BSP under uniaxial tension and cyclic tension. Four groups of BSP specimens with four d...

Economical Steel Plate Girder Bridges

As a service to the bridge design profession, Bethlehem Steel has conducted hundreds of studies of steel plate girder bridges using its Preliminary Bridge Girder Optimization Program. The program is unique because it optimizes plate girder designs on the basis of least cost, not least weight. An evaluation of many study results leads to a number of guidelines which are offered in this paper. Wh...

The Mitc7 and Mitc9 Plate Bending Elements

We present in this paper two plate bending elements that have been proposed and mathematically analyzed previousIy by Bathe, Brezzi and Fortin: the MITC7 (a triangular) element and the MITC9 (a quad~late~l) element. The formation of these elements is summarized and example solutions are given that demonstrate the high accuracy of these elements. 1. lNTRODUCHON Although much research effort has ...