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SOLUTIONS<br />

FOR CERTAIN RECTANGULAR SLABS<br />

where<br />

Ao cosh r (y-v) o 7(x ± u)<br />

= cosh - cos (12)<br />

Bo J a a<br />

By differentiation of (10) and (11) with respect to x and y one obtains<br />

8co 0- -P P Z e - .ly cI sin au cos ax<br />

Ox a ,<br />

-<br />

P<br />

ir(x- T1 u) 1 (x +u)<br />

= - - sin - - sin<br />

4a Bo a Ao a<br />

(13)<br />

O4)o P sgn (y - v)<br />

-0 s e - " - • sin au si n a x<br />

9y a 2,,a...<br />

P ( 1 1 7r (y - v)<br />

_-- -- - )sinh ---<br />

4a Bo Ao a<br />

(14)*<br />

Nadait showed that the curvatures of the slab may be expressed<br />

through the function 4o and its derivatives by means of the equations<br />

2N<br />

daWo 900<br />

= 40o - (y - v)<br />

ay 2<br />

ay<br />

(15)<br />

aOxy<br />

Ox<br />

*See Appendix A <strong>for</strong> a discussion of the change of sign represented by the function sgn (y -<br />

namely, sgn (y - v) = algebraic sign of (y - v) =- <strong>for</strong> y > v<br />

v),<br />

tA. NAdai, Die elastischen Platten, 1925, p. 86.

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