Download or read book Normal-pressure Tests of Circular Plates with Clamped Edges written by Albert E. McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fixture is described for making normal-pressure tests of flat plates 5 inches in diameter in which particular care was taken to obtain rigid clamping at the edges. Results are give for 19 plates, ranging in thickness from 0.015 to 0.072 inch. The center deflections and the extreme-fiber stresses at low pressures were found to agree with theoretical values; the center deflections at high pressures were 4 to 12 percent greater than the theoretical values. Empirical curves are derived of the pressure for the beginning of permanent set as a function of the dimensions of the plate and the tensile properties of the material.