Compare the thickness required for a 2 m diameter flat plate, designed to resist a uniform distributed

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Compare the thickness required for a 2 m diameter flat plate, designed to resist a uniform distributed load of 10 kN/m2, if the plate edge is

a. Completely rigid; 

b. Free to rotate. 

Take the maximum allowable stress for the material as 100 MN/m2 and Poisson’s ratio for the material as 0.3.  

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Chemical Engineering Design

ISBN: 9780128211793

3rd Edition

Authors: Gavin Towler, Ray Sinnott

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