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Table 3 Summary of shear correction factors of simply supported and uniformly loaded square and triangular plates with h/a = 0.2

From: Improved shear correction factors for deflection of simply supported very thick rectangular auxetic plates

Schematics of plates

Extremely auxetic material (v = − 1)

Typical conventional material (v = 0.3)

Incompressible material (v = 1/2)

Remarks

κ = 0.8351

κ = 0.8384

κ = 0.8405

Isosceles right triangular plate (Lim 2016a)

κ = 0.8344

κ = 0.8364

κ = 0.8376

Equilateral triangular plate (Lim 2016b)

κ = 0.8341

κ = 0.8354

κ = 0.8362

Square plate (this paper)

κ = 0.8349

κ = 0.8377

κ = 0.8394

Rectangular plate with aspect ratio of 4 (this paper)