Plate Buckling
Estimate elastic local buckling stress and thickness sensitivity for a thin rectangular plate.
Critical stress
71.79 MPa
long simply supported plate in longitudinal compression
Width / thickness
60.00
t / b = 0.0167
Critical line load
143.57 N/mm
143.6 kN/m
Plate buckling
Compression excites the first local mode; stiffness rises with the square of thickness over width.
71.8 MPa critical
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coefficient
4.00
long simply supported plate in longitudinal compression
slenderness
60.0
width divided by thickness
plate rigidity
52.37 N m
Kirchhoff plate rigidity D
line load
143.6 N/mm
sigma cr times thickness
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