LINEAR AND NON LINEAR

INSTABILITY ANALYSIS OF
STEEL PLATE USING ANSYS
BY
Priya .s. jain
Under the guidance of
Mr. Prashant sunagar.

Contents.

Introduction
Objective
Work completed
Future work
References

Steel plate

Advantages of steel

Uses

Importance of study

Objective

Buckling and post buckling analysis of

thin steel plate under different boundary
conditions subjected to
Uniaxial compression
Biaxial comprsssion
shear

Work done so far

Literature review

Familiarizing with the use of finite element software

ansys.11
1. solving beam and truss problems as basics
2. static analysis of plates
3. buckling analysis of plates

Excel sheet for calculating the eulers buckling coefficient.

Fixing the dimensions of plate so as to arrive at desired

buckling co-efficient.

BUCKLING ANALYSIS
OF PLATES

CASE 1:SIMPLY
SUPPORTED

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS , LOAD APPLICATION,

AND OUT OF PLANE DEFORMATION (BUCKLING)

BUCKLING LOAD FACTOR

BUCKLING LOAD FACTOR FOR FIRST MODE 740.779

N/mm

BUCKLING COEFFICIENT
FOR SIMPLY SUPPORTED CASE,
FROM THE LINEAR BUCKLING ANALYSIS
(EIGEN BUCKLING ANALYSIS), THE
BUCKLING LOAD OBTAINED FOR SIMPLY
SUPPORTED CASE IS 740.779N/mm.
CORRESPONDING CRITICAL BUCKLING
STRESS IS ,
=740.779N/mm/THICKNESS OF PLATE
=740.779N/mm/10mm=74.0779N/mm2

Buckling co-efficient

CONTD

FROM THE STANDARD RELATIONSHIP, THE

BUCKLING COEFICIENT,

K=(SCR *12(1-0.3^2)*B^2)/(t^2*PI()^2*E)
=(74.0779*12(1-0.3^2)*1000^2)/
(10^2*3.142*3.142*206.84E3)
=4.099

Percentage error
Desired value of k = 4
(from literature )
Theory of elastic stability by timoshenko
and gere
Obtained value of k = 4.099

( from ansys for b/t = 100) .

i.e. b=1000 and t=10 mm.
% error = (4.099-4)/4 * 100 = 2.475%

CASE II-ONE EDGE SS & OTHER EDGE FIXED

I

BUCKLING COEFFICIENT
FOR ONE EDGE SIMPLY SUPPORTED
CASE& OTHER EDGE FIXED,
From the linear buckling analysis(eigen
buckling analysis), the buckling load
obtained for this case is 1088 N/mm.
Corresponding value for critical stress is,
=1088N/mm/THICKNESS OF PLATE
=1088N/mm/10mm=108.8N/mm2

Buckling co-efficient

Percentage error
Desired value of k = 5.42
(from literature )
Theory of elastic stability by timoshenko
and gere
Obtained value of k = 6.019

( from ansys for b/t = 100) .

i.e. b=1000 and t=10 mm.
% error = (6.019-5.42)/5.42 * 100 =
11.05%

Case III
Fixed Fixed

BUCKLING COEFFICIENT
FOR BOTH EDGES FIXED,
From the linear buckling analysis(eigen
buckling analysis), the buckling load
obtained for this case is 1385 N/mm.
Corresponding value for critical stress is,
=1385 N/mm/THICKNESS OF PLATE
=1385 N/mm/10mm=138.5N/mm2

Buckling co-efficient.

Percentage error
Desired value of k = 6.97
(from literature )
Theory of elastic stability by timoshenko
and gere
Obtained value of k =7.663

( from ansys for b/t = 100) .

i.e. b=1000 and t=10 mm.
% error = (7.663-6.97)/6.97 * 100 =
9.94%

Case IV fixed free

BUCKLING COEFFICIENT
FOR ONE EDGE FIXED AND ONE EDGE
FREE,
From the linear buckling analysis(eigen
buckling analysis), the buckling load
obtained for this case is 295.014N/mm.
Corresponding value for critical stress is,
=295.014N/mm/THICKNESS OF PLATE
=295.014 N/mm/10mm=29.5 N/mm2

Buckling co-efficient.

Percentage error
Desired value of k = 1.7
(from literature )
Theory of elastic stability by timoshenko
and gere
Obtained value of k =1.633

( from ansys for b/t = 100) .

i.e. b=1000 and t=10 mm.
% error = (1.7-1.633)/1.7* 100 = 3.94%

Case V free free

BUCKLING COEFFICIENT
BOTH EDGES FREE,
From the linear buckling analysis(eigen
buckling analysis), the buckling load
obtained for this case is 171.95 N/mm.
Corresponding value for critical stress is,
=171.95 N/mm/THICKNESS OF PLATE
=171.95 N/mm/10mm= 17.195 N/mm2

Buckling co-efficient

Percentage error
Desired value of k = 1
(from literature )
Theory of elastic stability by timoshenko
and gere
Obtained value of k =0.952

( from ansys for b/t = 100) .

i.e. b=1000 and t=10 mm.
% error = (1 -0.952 )/1* 100 = 4.8%

Future
work

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Thank you