ELASTIC ANALYSIS OF STRESS DISTRIBUSIONS FOR ORTHOTROPIC WOODS WITH CONCENTRATED FORCES

This paper analyzes the stress distributions of orthotropic wood plates subjected to concentrated forces. By two dimensional theory of elasticity for orthotropic media, stress distributions are obtained from the stress functions. In order to examine their validity the normal strains derived from the theoretical stresses are compared with the experimental results, which are measured by the strain gages. Then they are found in a fairly good agreement. Therefore these elastic solutions for orthotropic media are regarded as appropriate.