Research Article

Orthotropic Models of Corrugated Sheets in Finite Element Analysis

Table 1

Summary of the different analyses performed, cf. Figures 2 and 3.

Analysis Models Properties from

Free vibration (1) 3D FE corrugated sheet
Orthotropic FE plate Samanta and Mukhopadhyay
Orthotropic FE plate Briassoulis
Orthotropic FE plate Liew et al.

Extensional (2) 3D FE corrugated sheet
Orthotropic FE plate Samanta and Mukhopadhyay
Orthotropic FE plate Briassoulis

Buckling (3) 3D FE corrugated sheet
3D FE beam
Orthotropic FE plate Best result from (1) and (2)
Analytical column buckling