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Thanks very much for your reply! Certainly things I can look into :)

Not entirely sure, but for a rough estimate you could take a strip of the circular plate, then analyse it as a simple cantilever. Get your moments, shear forces, stresses and integrate it over the inner circle. That should atleast provide a sanity check to a FEM model.

Hello all, I'm in my final year of engineering so I'm required to complete a thesis as part of that. My topic is to investigate the wind loading on a typical conveyor belt + truss arrangement, because there's a lot of uncertainty in industry about drag coefficients etc. I've attached a model...