Simply-Supported Thin 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 0.05 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_Test13H.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 = 0.05 m - Thin 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 = 100 N/m2; ω = 2 π f ; f = 0 to 10 Hz.

Harmonic Options

  • Number of mode shapes = 16
  • Operating frequency limits = 0 - 10 Hz.

Damping

  • Modal_damping: 2% of critical damping for all 16 modes
  • Rayleigh_damping: Mass coefficient a0 = 0.299, Stiffness coefficient a1 = 1.339 x 10 -3

Results

  Reference SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Modal _Damping SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Rayleigh_Damping
Peak UZ displacement at center 45.42 mm at

f = 2.377 Hz

45.17 mm at

f = 2.384 Hz

45.36 mm at

f = 2.383 Hz

Peak SY bending stress at center 35.08 N/mm2 at

f = 2.377 Hz

32.33 N/mm2 at

f = 2.384 Hz

32.38 N/mm2 at

f = 2.383 Hz

Reference

NAFEMS, Publication R0016, The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, "Selected Benchmarks for Forced Vibration", Test 13H, 1989.