Exact Solutions for the Free Vibrations and Buckling of Rectangular Plates With Linearly Varying In-Plane Loading

Author(s):  
Arthur W. Leissa ◽  
Jae-Hoon Kang

Abstract An exact solution procedure is formulated for the free vibration and buckling analysis of rectangular plates having two opposite edges simply supported when these edges are subjected to linearly varying normal stresses. The other two edges may be clamped, simply supported or free, or they may be elastically supported. The transverse displacement (w) is assumed as sinusoidal in the direction of loading (x), and a power series is assumed in the lateral (y) direction (i.e., the method of Frobenius). Applying the boundary conditions yields the eigenvalue problem of finding the roots of a fourth order characteristic determinant. Care must be exercised to obtain adequate convergence for accurate vibration frequencies and buckling loads, as is demonstrated by two convergence tables. Some interesting and useful results for vibration frequencies and buckling loads, and their mode shapes, are presented for a variety of edge conditions and in-plane loadings, especially pure in-plane moments.

2001 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 527-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAE-HOON KANG ◽  
ARTHUR W. LEISSA

This paper presents exact solutions for the free vibrations and buckling of rectangular plates having two opposite, simply supported edges subjected to linearly varying normal stresses causing pure in-plane moments, the other two edges being free. Assuming displacement functions which are sinusoidal in the direction of loading (x), the simply supported edge conditions are satisfied exactly. With this the differential equation of motion for the plate is reduced to an ordinary one having variable coefficients (in y). This equation is solved exactly by assuming power series in y and obtaining its proper coefficients (the method of Frobenius). Applying the free edge boundary conditions at y=0, b yields a fourth order characteristic determinant for the critical buckling moments and vibration frequencies. Convergence of the series is studied carefully. Numerical results are obtained for the critical buckling moments and some of their associated mode shapes. Comparisons are made with known results from less accurate one-dimensional beam theory. Free vibration frequency and mode shape results are also presented. Because the buckling and frequency parameters depend upon the Poisson's ratio (ν), results are shown for 0≤ν≤0.5, valid for isotropic materials.


Author(s):  
C W Bert ◽  
M Malik

This paper considers linear free vibrations of thin isotropic rectangular plates with combinations of the classical boundary conditions of simply supported, clamped and free edges and the mathematically possible condition of guided edges. The total number of plate configurations with the classical boundary conditions are known to be twenty-one. The inclusion of the guided edge condition gives rise to an additional thirty-four plate configurations. Of these additional cases, twenty-one cases have exact solutions for which frequency equations in explicit or transcendental form may be obtained. The frequency equations of these cases are given and, for each case, results of the first nine mode frequencies are tabulated for a range of the plate aspect ratios.


2001 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 385-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. XIANG ◽  
J. N. REDDY

This paper presents the exact buckling loads and vibration frequencies of multi-stepped symmetric cross-ply laminated rectangular plates having two opposite edges simply supported while the other two edges may have any combination of free, simply supported, and clamped conditions. An analytical method that uses the Lévy solution method and the domain decomposition technique is proposed to determine the buckling loads and natural frequencies of stepped laminated plates. Buckling and vibration solutions are obtained for symmetric cross-ply laminated rectangular plates having two-, three- and four-step thickness variations.


1972 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Keer ◽  
B. Stahl

The vibration and stability of plates with mixed edge conditions are considered in this paper. A simply supported rectangular plate which is clamped along the central portion on two opposite edges and a plate with partial clamping along one edge are analyzed. The problems are formulated as dual series equations and reduced to homogeneous Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. Comparisons with numerical results obtained by other investigators are made. Vibration and buckling mode shapes are illustrated. A vibration analysis of a plate simply supported adjacent to the corners is also made. This case is formulated as a coupled system of dual series equations which is reduced to a system of homogeneous integral equations. In all of the solutions given, the singularity is isolated and treated analytically.


2002 ◽  
Vol 02 (04) ◽  
pp. 457-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. GUPTA ◽  
J. N. REDDY

This paper presents the exact buckling loads and vibration frequencies of orthotropic rectangular plates with internal line hinge and having two opposite edges simply supported while the other two edges may have any combination of free, simply supported, and clamped conditions. An analytical method that uses the Lévy solution method and the domain decomposition technique is employed to determine the buckling loads and natural frequencies of rectangular plates with internal line hinge.


2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 797-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Hoon Kang ◽  
Arthur W. Leissa

A three-dimensional (3D) method of analysis is presented for determining the free vibration frequencies and mode shapes of thick, complete (not truncated) conical shells of revolution in which the bottom edges are normal to the midsurface of the shells based upon the circular cylindrical coordinate system using the Ritz method. Comparisons are made between the frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes of the conical shells from the authors' former analysis with bottom edges parallel to the axial direction and the present analysis with the edges normal to shell midsurfaces.


Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Narita

Abstract The free vibration behavior of rectangular plates provides important technical information in structural design, and the natural frequencies are primarily affected by the boundary conditions as well as aspect and thickness ratios. One of the three classical edge conditions, i.e., free, simple supported and clamped edges, may be used to model the constraint along an edge of the rectangle. Along the entire boundary with four edges, there exist a wide variety of combinations in the edge conditions, each yielding different natural frequencies and mode shapes. For counting the total number of possible combinations, the present paper introduces the Polya counting theory in combinatorial mathematics, and formulas are derived for counting the exact numbers. A modified Ritz method is then developed to calculate natural frequencies of anisotropic rectangular plates under any combination of the three edge conditions and is used to numerically verify the numbers. In numerical experiments, the number of combinations in the free vibration behaviors is determined for some plate models by using the derived formulas, and are corroborated by counting the numbers of different sets of the natural frequencies that are obtained from the Ritz method.


Author(s):  
C. M. Wang ◽  
K. K. Ang ◽  
C. Wang

A Rayleigh-Ritz analysis is presented for the free vibration of skew sandwich plates composed of an orthotropic core and laminated facings. By proposing a set of Ritz functions consisting of the product of mathematically complete polynomial functions and the the boundary equations raised to appropriate powers, the Rayleigh-Ritz method can be automated to handle such composite plates with any combination of edge conditions. For convenience and better accurarcy, the Ritz formulation was derived in the skew coordinate system. Vibration frequencies of rectangular plates (a special case of skew plates) obtained via this method have been found to be in good agreement with previous researchers results. Owing to length limitation, only sample vibration frequencies for skew sandwich plates are presented.


1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Li ◽  
S. R. Reid

A plastic buckling analysis for axially compressed square tubes is described in this paper. Deformation theory is used together with the realistic edge conditions for the panels of the tube introduced in our previous paper (Li and Reid, 1990), referred to hereafter as LR. The results obtained further our understanding of a number of problems related to the plastic buckling of axially compressed square tubes and simply supported rectangular plates, which have remained unsolved hitherto and seem rather puzzling. One of these is the discrepancy between experimental results and the results of plastic buckling analysis performed using the incremental theory of plasticity and the unexpected agreement between the results of calculations based on deformation theory for plates and experimental data obtained from tests conducted on tubes. The non-negligible difference between plates and tubes obtained in the present paper suggests that new experiments should be carried out to provide a more accurate assessment of the predictions of the two theories. Discussion of the results herein also advances our understanding of the compact crushing behavior of square tubes beyond that given in LR. An important conclusion reached is that strain hardening cannot be neglected for the plastic buckling analysis of square tubes even if the degree of hardening is small since doing so leads to an unrealistic buckling mode.


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