ON THE DYNAMIC STABILITY OF RECTANGULAR PLATES SUBJECTED TO INTERMEDIATE FOLLOWER FORCES

If a follower force is acting at the intermediate section of a plate, two regions of the plate must be considered. One region undergoes compressive load distribution, and the other region undergoes tensile load distribution because of plate inertia force distribution. In this study, with the changing of the acting line position of the intermediate force, the dynamic stability of the rectangular plate will be reported. In addition, the change of the dynamic stability property will be investigated with the change of the aspect ratio of the plate