Designing Laterally Loaded RC Stiffened Plates: Energy Balance Concept

Table 3

Comparison of the moment-field with the results from the published literature.

𝜆	Moment field	Proposed design equations	Design code [20]	Upper-bound limit analysis [22]	Lower-bound limit analysis [23]	Elastic plate theory [24]
0	𝑚𝑢𝑥, kNm/m; (×10^3 lb-in/in)	89.140; (429.75)	86.130; (415.24)	89.139; (429.75)	94.926; (457.65)	78.05; (376.29)
	𝑚𝑢𝑦, kNm/m; (×10^3 lb-in/in)	132.11; (636.92)	131.03; (631.71)	132.105; (636.89)	140.68; (678.23)	152.64; (735.89)
	𝑚𝑏, kNm; (×10^6 lb-in)	0; (0.0)	0; (0.0)	0; (0.0)	0; (0.0)	0; (0.0)
	Total static moment, kNm; (×10^6 lb-in)	3685.31; (646.04)	3609.28; (632.71)	3685.22; (646.02)	3924.45; (687.96)	3756.17; (658.46)
	𝑚𝑢𝑥, kNm/m; (×10^3 lb-in/in)	15.32; (73.86)		15.309; (73.81)	16.156; (77.89)	3.014; (14.53)
1	𝑚𝑢𝑦, kNm/m; (×10^3 lb-in/in)	22.71; (109.49)	Not applicable as aspect ratio of the panel exceeds 2.	22.689; (109.39)	23.943; (115.43)	23.411; (112.87)
	𝑚𝑏, kNm; (×10^6 lb-in)	1221.0; (214.04)		Expression not available