K. M. Liew, Y. Xiang, S. Kitipornchai, C. M. Wang ... 412 pages - Publisher: Elsevier Science; 1st edition (November, 1998) ... Language: English - ASIN: B001MBUH8Q by Amazon Digital Services ...
Over the last several years, the four authors have jointly conducted
research into the analysis of vibrating Mindlin plates as a
collaborative project between Nanyang Technological University, The
National University of Singapore, and The University of Queensland. The
research was prompted by the fact that there is a dearth of vibration
results for Mindlin plates when compared to classical thin plate
solutions. To generate the vibration results, the authors have
successfully employed the Ritz method for general plate shapes and
boundary conditions. The Ritz method, once thought to be awkward for
general plate analysis, can be automated through suitable trial
functions (for displacements) that satisfy the geometric plate boundary
conditions a priori. This work has been well-received by
academics and researchers, as indicated by the continual requests for
the authors' papers and the Ritz software codes. This monograph is
written with the view to share this so-called p-Ritz method for
the vibration analysis of Mindlin plates and its software codes with the
research community. To the authors' knowledge, the monograph contains
the first published Ritz plate software codes of its kind.