1. Notions of "plate" and "veiling
1.1 The "plate" component
Simplistically, a plate can be defined as a structural component in which one of the three dimensions, known as "thickness", is small in relation to the other two. In principle, it is a flat structural being, meaning that the mid-plane, the surface at mid-thickness, is initially assumed to be perfectly flat.
To avoid unnecessary mathematical complications, we limit ourselves here to considering only plates for which both :
the thickness t is constant ;
the shape is rectangular and defined by length a and width b ;
the constituent material – for structural steels, in this case –, is assumed to be homogeneous and isotropic....
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Eurocode 3 – Design of steel structures – Part 1-5: Plated structural elements. European Standard, European Committee for Standardization, Brussels. - EN 1993-1-5 - Octobre 2006
- Eurocode 3 – Design of steel structures: General rules and rules for buildings. CEN, Brussels. - ENV 1993-1-1 - April 1992
- JRC Ispra and ECCS-CECM-EKS, Brussels, 1ère éd., October 2007 (document freely downloadable from http://eurocodes.jrc.ec.europa.eu)....
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