Thin plates of variable thickness with linear flexural rigidity

Ye, Jianqiao and Xiao, Haihong (1989) Thin plates of variable thickness with linear flexural rigidity. Communications in Applied Numerical Methods, 5 (3). pp. 153-158. ISSN 0748-8025

Abstract

A very simple method is suggested in this paper to analyse plates of variable thickness with linear flexural rigidity. Bi-harmonic analysis is adopted to establish the boundary integral equation in the present study. Numerical examples are given to show that the approach developed in this paper is effective.