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    Design of long width steel plate

    Hi, I'm designing a large steel plate (6.1m x 3m) simply supported on the short side, under uniform distributed loading and need to calculate the required plate thickness. Normally I would calculate the bending capacity and the section modulus S=bd^2/6. For this case, would my design width (b)...

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