Affiliation: | Department of Construction and Civil Engineering, Daido Institute of Technology, Hokusuicho-40, Minami-ku, Nagoya 457, Japan Department of Civil Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA |
Abstract: | This paper deals with the vibration or buckling of thin plates with either mixed boundary conditions or discontinuous boundary conditions using the spline element method. To demonstrate the accuracy of the method, several examples are solved, and results are compared with those obtained by other numerical methods. The effects of partial rotational constraints and angles of skew on frequencies and buckling loads of isotropic skew plates are also investigated. |