Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
808314 Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2007 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

The use of an integral measure of initial deflections of thin plates, based on the strain energy, has proved to be of importance in studying the influence of the imperfections on the strength of plates subjected to in-plane compression. The energy measure allows for a straightforward definition of compound modes and for a computational determination of the lower bound strength. The last quantity may be essential for assessment of plate design strength considering the imperfections as a random field.

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