Bending of rectangular cantilever plates of moderate thickness

The conception of modified simply supported edge has been studied with complements and extension with the application of E. Reissner's plate theory by which the effect of transverse shear deformation on bending plates has been taken into account in particular. The exact solution for the bending of rectangular, cantilevering and moderately thick plates under a concentrated load acting at the middle of the free edge parallel to the clam ped edge has been obtained by the method of superposition.