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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 70, Number 4, May25 2019 , pages 445-455
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2019.70.4.445
 


Concerning the tensor-based flexural formulation: Theory
Rajai Z. Al-Rousan, Mohammed A. Alhassan and Moheldeen A. Hejazi

 
Abstract
    Since the days of yore, plate\'s flexural analysis and formulation were dependent on the assumed coordinate system. In uncovering the coordinates-independent flexural interpretation, in this study, the plate bending analysis has been interpreted in terms of the tensor\'s components of curvatures and bending moments, in accordance with the continuum mechanics. The paper herein presents the theoretical formulations and conceptual perspectives of the Hydrostatic Method of Analysis (HM) that combines the continuum mechanics with the elasticity theory; the graphical statics and analysis; the theory of thin isotropic and orthotropic plates.
 
Key Words
    hydrostatic formulation; plates flexural; spatial curvature; tensors; coordinates independent formulation
 
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