Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Plates Stiffened by Parallel Beams with Deformable Connection

Table 2

Maximum deflection (cm) at point A of the first cycle of motion of the stiffened plate for various values of of Example 1.

	Linear analysis	Nonlinear analysis
Full connection	0.484	0.391
100.0	0.488	0.395
10.0	0.495	0.401
1.0	0.521	0.419
0.1	0.575	0.449
0.01	0.696	0.494
0.005	0.725	0.501