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Unstiffened, Stiffened, Sandwich,

and Composite Plates*

5.1 Introduction

This chapter discusses the analysis of elastic plates. The plates can be with

or without stiffeners, sandwich type, or made of composite materials. An

approximate solution of simple plates with dened boundary conditions

is presented in the rst part of the chapter. The latter part of the chapter

discusses stiffened and sandwich plates. Finally, plates made of composite

materials are treated.

An important point to make at this point is that all the values for the char-

acteristics of the stiffened, sandwich, and composite ...