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Saad-Eldeen, S., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Structural capacity of plates and stiffened panels of different materials with opening”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 167, pp. 45-54
This work experimentally investigates the influence of different opening sizes and shapes, different steel materials and structural configurations on the ultimate strength of steel plates. A series of experimentas have been carried out for unstiffened plates and stiffened panels having an opening of different shape and size in addition to different constructional steels; high tensile and mild steel. The effect on the ultimate load carrying capacity of the opening sizes and shapes, different steels and structural configurations, post-collapse deformations and strain energy density are investigated and analysed. Several relationships of the ultimate stress ratio, ultimate load carrying capacity ratio for different steels as a function of the breadth ratio are presented and discussed. A relationship showing the effect of different structural configurations on the ultimate load carrying capacity ratio is presented. Several observations and concluding remarks are derived from the experimental results.
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