Numerical Analysis of Laterally Loaded RC Stiffened-Plate Using ANSYS

Ravpreet Kaur, Manpreet Kaur

Numerical analysis, ansys, laterally loaded, stiffened.

The most widely used structural element in civil engineering structures are reinforced concrete plates.. In the available literature, numbers of design guidelines are available for proportioning the plate systems and mostly, these guidelines have been suggested on the basis of the results of an extensive series of tests and the well established performance record of various plate systems. However, its behavior is not fully understood. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to study the effect of beam stiffness on the moment field and crack pattern appearing in the plate under a uniform lateral load. To validate the analytical results, these are compared with the experimental results available in the literature and are found to be in good agreement.