The analysis of plates under impact loading

Plates generally described as the elements whose one dimension is smaller than the other two dimensions. In this work, the deformations of plates under single load, uniform distributed load and impact load, are calculated with finite difference method. In this analysis, second degree central finite difference method is used and the equations which are gained by this method are calculated with the help of Matlab program. By the improved program, the deformations of plates are estimated. These results are compared with the analytical results and determined that the errors are negligible. For the analysis under impact loading, there is another part in the program. In this part, plates are accepted as grids composed of beams and the deformation values are calculated. With this work, it is aimed to make the entry of inputs and the impression of results easy for the users. And Also it is aimed to calculate the complex algorithms with a negligible errors.