I have a plate with a known load applied. The plate is simply supported on two sides only.
The plate is 2.33m (span between supports) x 1.4m x 60mm thick.
A couple of things I want to check
1. Can I treat this plate as a wide beam for my analysis???
2. If so, how do I go about converting the applied load of 460kN to kN/m across the beam. Eg 460/2.33 ???
Thanks,
Jason