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Stress In Thin Rectangular Thin Plate with 3 Edges Fixed and 1 Free and with Applied Moment

Thread starter pflow
Start date Feb 11, 2015

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Feb 11, 2015

pflow

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I was trying to find a formula for the stress in a thin rectangular plate with 3 edges fixed and 1 Free with Applied Moment. I have done a FEA run but would like to back it up with a "classical hand stress calculation." I tried Roark's formulas for stress and strain but did not find this case.