ANALYSIS OF ANISOTROPIC PLATES .2.

The energy formulation presented earlier is extended to include the analysis of plane anisotropic rectangular plates with non-uniform plate properties and non-uniform in-plane and distributed normal loadings. The formulation includes linear theory stability analysis, the calculation of natural frequencies and mode shapes, and analysis of displacement due to lateral loads. The extension presented in the present paper is formulated in a manner such that the non-uniform properties and loadings can be handled with no appreciable increase in difficulty over the formulations previously presented except for the evaluation of certain more general integrals. An easily automated method of evaluating these more general integrals is presented. © 1969, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.