A model consisting of a circular plate fastened to the top of a circular cylinder was placed in a wind tunnel and the pressure caused by a wind load were read over the exposed surfaces. The pressure on the plate were approximated by four terms of a Fourier cosine series. By use of the governing equation or small deflection or plates, Fourier cosine series of four terms are developed for deflections of plates with a fixed boundary and with a simple support condition. Moments are developed from the deflections and results for both are presented in equation and tabular form. The results are left in a form that can be applied to any size thin circular plate under the action of a tangential wind load or the same flow regime as the one considered. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/71202 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Purdy, David Miles |
| Contributors | Engineering Mechanics |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 45 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 21123604 |
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