Circular thin plates are extensively found in numerous types of engineering applications. Nonetheless, there have been few experimental studies investigating the real behavior of reinforced circular plates under uniform loading. Present work empirically studies buckling/failure behavior of uniformly loaded, circumferentially reinforced circular plates with clamped brims. To this end, a number of locally thickened/stiffened circular steel plates were tested under uniform pressure. Obtained findings were processed to examine the structural behavior of such structures. In addition, results were verified by FE analysis of corresponding tested models. Acceptable agreement was ultimately detected between both experimental and numerical results which were basically aimed at generalizing the behavior of circular plates in full scale within the range of the current work.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	circular stiffened/thickened plates, uniform pressure, experiments, buckling and failure, yield lines
Research Division:	Engineering
Research Group:	Civil engineering
Research Field:	Structural engineering
Objective Division:	Construction
Objective Group:	Construction materials performance and processes
Objective Field:	Metals
UTAS Author:	Ghanbari Ghazijahani, T (Mr Tohid Ghanbari Ghazijahani)
ID Code:	93940
Year Published:	2013
Web of Science® Times Cited:	6
Deposited By:	Engineering
Deposited On:	2014-08-25
Last Modified:	2014-08-27
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