Anisotropic Plate Analysis-Boundary Conditions

Abstract

The requirements on the boundary conditions of the assumed series in a Ritz solution for anisotropic plates is discussed for classical and elastically restrained boundary conditions. A convenient method is indicated for handling elastically restrained boundary conditions which satisfies the natural boundary conditions for orthotropic or iso tropic plates and which utilizes the integration formulas given in a previous paper. Extensive numerical results are presented to illus trate the solution method for series satisfying only the geometrical boundary conditions and for series satisfying both natural and geo metrical boundary conditions.