Journal of Innovations in Civil Engineering and Technology, cilt.4, sa.2, ss.61-75, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
This paper aims to investigate the critical buckling loads of uniaxially loaded simply
supported square thin plates with central circular and square holes in terms of some
parameters like hole shapes, slenderness ratios and total hole areas. In this study,
buckling analyses of perforated plates with different hole shapes of perforation and
slenderness ratios were carried out. For this purpose, plate models with seven
different total hole areas were examined together with the non-perforated plate. The
total hole area ratios in the models are 0.79%, 3.14%, 7.07%, 12.57%, 19.63%, 28.27%
and 38.48%, respectively. The total hole areas of the models with square holes are
arranged to be the same as the models with circular holes to compare the results
among circular and square perforated plates properly. The models were established
by using the finite-element (FE) software ANSYS using Shell-181 elements which are
4-node structural shell elements. The comparisons on critical buckling loads between
square and circular perforated results show that the buckling load for the plates with
square holes is higher than for the plates with circular holes.