Shear Lag and Effective Breadth in Rectangular Plates with Material Orthotropy. Part 12: Analytical Formulation

摘要

Symbolically derived closed-form solutions for the integration constants in series solutions for rectangular orthotropic plates under in-plane boundary shear are derived, enabling the exact stress distribution for such problems to be readily obtained. The ensuing expressions complement an earlier derivation for in-plane normal loadings along longitudinal boundaries, so that totally arbitrary stresses on these boundaries can cow be studied. Simple formulae for the longitudinal stress distribution are listed, and These provide the basis for a subsequent parametric investigation of shear Lag and effective breadths in wide orthotropic flanges.