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THE LARGE DEFLEXION OF THIN CANTILEVERED PLATES
PART II. SYMMETRICALLY LOADED RECTANGULAR PLATE

( Department of Aeronautics, University of Sydney )
The formal scheme of solution, developed in Part I (1), is applied to a particular case for which an analytical solution is obtainable. From an examination of this particular solution it is shown how the formal scheme may be completed in the general case. Certain limitations on the formal method become apparent and a preliminary investigation is made on the possibility of relaxing them. Estimates are made of the likely range of usefulness of the asymptotic series in terms of which the solution is obtained.