Bending of Orthogonally Stiffened Plates with large Elastic Deflections

摘要

About forty years ago, Huber developed a theory of stiffened plates in which the plates were imagined to have constant thickness but composed of orthotropic material (1). Since then the idea has been considerably developed. A brief history of the development is given in a recent paper (2). The more generalized theory has been applied to the case of the cylindrical shell (3). In the present paper the problem of large deflections of the plate will be considered.