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Normal Loading on a Wedge-Shaped Plate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

D. E. R. Godfrey
D. E. R. Godfrey*
Affiliation:
Battersea Polytechnic
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Summary

The equations of thin plate theory are expressed in polar co-ordinates and transformed using the Mellin transform. Problems involving discontinuous and isolated normal loadings may then be solved in the case of the built-in or freely supported wedge-shaped boundary.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1955 , pp. 196 - 204
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1955

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