The Calculation of Maximum Deflection, Moment, and Shear for Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Plate With Clamped Edges

The problem of the uniformly loaded rectangular plate with four clamped edges has been solved by H. Hencky and independently by J. Boobnoff. Hencky made refined calculations only for the case of a square plate while Boobnoff made precise calculations for several ratios of the sides of the plate. This article gives the results of calculations for maximum deflection, moment, and shear for several ratios of the sides of the plate, using Hencky’s equations. Curves are drawn with the coefficients, used in defining these maximum quantities, as ordinates and the ratios of the sides of the plate as abscissas.