Classical Plate Problems
Résumé
Bending of plates refers to internal states of stress such that the membrane stress resultants vanish. From the kinematic point of view, it means that the in-plane displacements of the material points of the plate are null. In other words, the degrees of freedom of plates in bending are the out-of-plane displacement (thick and thin plates), together with the two material rotations (thick plates only) – see article “Direct Derivation of Plate Theories”