Thermal mechanical analysis procedure for a semicircular plate with clamped straight edge

A U-tube steam generator utilizes a semicircular plate known as a divider plate to baffle the primary side inlet fluid from the outlet fluid. An analytical solution is given for a through thickness thermal gradient and a pressure loading. The plate is simply supported along the circumferential edge and clamped at its straight edge. The problem is solved by first analyzing a full circular plate with a thermal and/or pressure loading. Next a diametrical line load is applied perpendicular to the plate with the magnitude so adjusted that the deflection along the diameter is equal to zero. Numerical results are developed and an example problem is shown. The results of the example problem are correlated with results from a 3-D finite element analysis. 4 refs