CONTINUOUS RECTANGULAR PLATES 243 Serres tat demands ve ome Pe 17 | 0.0520 | 0.024 | -o.10s | -0.0782 | 0.0586 Research Council of Canade for» grant e table, ©The authors are indebted to the Natio which greatly facilitated the computation of U is the largest bending moment at the center of the plate. Table 64 shows, however, that the difference between Mose and the largest of the values of Af. and My does not ‘exeoed 10 por cent of the latter values and that the general procedure described on page 238 is justified in case 4 as well. ‘For the purpose of the design of isolated panels without cortiauity (Fig. 118), ‘Table 64 contains the values ofthe largest moments Max acting atz = 0.10, y ~ 0.1; for rectangular plates the direction of ease is practically that of the shorter span and for square plates that of the diagonal 7 = —y. For the sake of « greater security those values of Maya may’ also be used in calculating continuous panels of oblong shape.244 ‘THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS Fig, 120 ‘Tapue 58. Bunning Moments vor Untromity Loavay Paves 1s Casn 5* > = 02,1 = smaller of spans «and Center of plate Middle of fixed edge oe | —| Factor /8 ln, = entt| a, = Bat = a a mn _ 0,8 | 0.0208 0.3 | 0.0245 07 | 0.0208 os | 0277 0.9 | o.oxs 10 | 0.0201 ri | 0.024 12 | 062 13 | 0.0546 1a | o-oo Us | 0.0378 16 | 0.0300 1.7 | 0.0008 18 | 0.0105 19 | 9010 20 | o.ou 2 | o.0n7 | 0.008 | —0 053s “Phe data of this fable are due subst p. 83, W, Ernst & Sobn, Berlin, 1995, tially to F. Cyerny, BautechmArch., vol. Uy "The method given in this articl is still applicable i the spans, the flexural rigidities, or the intensity of the lond differs only slightly from panel to panel of the continuous plate. Otherwise more exact methods should be used. ‘Tt should be noted, however, that the application of the rigorous methods to the design of continuous floor slabs often leads to cumbersome ealeulations and that the ‘accuracy thus obtained is illusory on aecount of many more or less ineterminable factors affecting the magnitude of the moments of the plate. Such factors are, for ‘example, the flexibility and the torsional rigidity of the supporting beams, the restrain