DEFLECTIONS OF A SIMPLY SUPPORTED RECTANGULAR PLATE SUBJECTED TO TRANSVERSE LOADS

The clifferential equations of the bending of sandwich plates were integrated to obtain the deflections when the four edges of the plate are simply supported and the loading consists of either a uniformly dis-tributed transverse load or a concentrated load applied at the center of the panel. The deflection patterns are shown in diagrams and the ~ deflection of the plate is presented in a number of graphs