Simply-Supported Thick Plate Under Harmonic Pressure

Calculate the peak UZ displacement and bending stress (SY or SX) at the center of a simply-supported square plate of side 10 m and thickness 1.0 m subjected to a steady-state harmonic pressure.

File Name

Open drive letter:\Users\Public\Public Documents\SOLIDWORKS\SOLIDWORKS version\samples\Simulation Examples\Verification\NAFEMS_R0016_Test21H.SLDPRT.

Study Type

Three shell studies are created:

Study Name Study Type
Modal_Damping Linear Dynamics - Harmonic (modal damping)
Rayleigh_Damping Linear Dynamics - Harmonic(Rayleigh damping)
Frequency Frequency

Mesh Type

Shell mesh for all three studies. Shell thickness = 1.0 m - Thick shell formulation.

Material Properties

Linear elastic isotropic. Modulus of elasticity (E) = 2 x 1011 N/m2, Mass density (ρ) = 8000 Kg/m3, Poisson's ratio (ν) = 0.3.

Load

A harmonic pressure sweep is applied on the whole plate. Horizontal axis is frequency (Hz) and vertical axis is maximum pressure (N/m2).

F = Fo sin ωt; Fo = 106 N/m2; ω = 2 π f ; f = 0 to 80 Hz.



Harmonic Options

  • Number of mode shapes = 16
  • Operating frequency limits = 0 - 80 Hz

Damping

  • Modal_damping: 2% of critical damping for all 16 modes
  • Rayleigh_damping: Mass coefficient a0 = 5.772, Stiffness coefficient a1 = 6.929 x 10 -5

Results

  Reference SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Modal _Damping SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Rayleigh_Damping
Peak UZ displacement at center 58.33 mm at f = 45.90 Hz 59.57 mm at f = 46.42 Hz 59.57 mm at f = 46.42 Hz
Peak SY bending stress at center 800.8 N/mm2 at f = 45.90 Hz 815.6 N/mm2 at f = 46.36 Hz 806.6 N/mm2 at f = 46.36 Hz

Reference

NAFEMS, Publication R0016, The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, "Selected Benchmarks for Forced Vibration", Test 21H, 1989.