EBPlate is a piece of software with a partial funding of the European Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS). It assesses the critical stresses associated to the elastic buckling of plates loaded in their plan.
The scope of the program is the following:
- Plates : Rectangular plate with uniform thickness;
- Isotropic or orthotropic behaviour.
- Edges : Plate supported on its four edges for the out-of-plane direction (no free edge) ;
Three possible conditions for the rotation of the edges : free rotation, fixed edges or elastic restraint (defined by flexural and torsional stiffnesses).
- Stiffening : Possible definition of several stiffeners in both longitudinal and transverse directions of the plate, with identical or different properties;
Axial, flexural and torsional rigidities of stiffeners are accounted for;
5 predefined types of stiffener cross-sections, which allow a direct definition from the dimensions;
Possible smearing of identical and regularly spaced stiffeners (orthotropic properties of the plate);
Specific treatment of stiffener with closed cross-section, for example trapezoidal sections.
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