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Plate Theory III

This lecture is the last part of Plate Theory, that is about Rayleigh-Ritz method.

This method is applied to easy idealized problems with a simple geometry and the result is a approximation of solution. How this approximated solution is obtained, has been taught in this online lecture. After the theory, an example is elaborated. Furthermore, the application of Rayleigh-Ritz method for buckling problem is explained.
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