Thin-glass Window-glass plates undergo deflections 10 times their thic
kness before they fail by brittle fracture and, hence, a complete-elas
tic large-deflection analysis of glass plates was found to be necessar
y to assess the behavior and design of thin-glass plates. The von Karm
an nonlinear-plate theory has been found to be applicable for such ana
lysis. Here, the analysis of axisymmetric-circular plates subjected to
uniformly distributed pressures is made using an iterative procedure.
As deflections become large, the maximum stress in the plate is no lo
nger at the center of the plate. The governing differential equations
are nondimensionalized, and in the nondimensional maximum-deflection,
stresses are presented in terms of nondimensional-applied pressure in
graphical as well as tabular forms.