Authors: Shabnam Jandaghi Semnani Reza Attarnejad Rahmat Kazemi Firouzjaei
Publish Date: 2013/03/10
Volume: 224, Issue: 8, Pages: 1643-1658
Abstract
This paper aims at extending the application of twodimensional differential transform method 2DDTM to study the free vibration of thin plates with arbitrarily varying thickness First the differential equation of motion governing thin plates with varying thickness is derived using Hamilton’s principle Afterward the 2DDTM a numerical method which is capable of reducing the size of computational work and can be applied to various types of differential equations has been applied to derive the natural frequencies of variable thickness thin plates with different boundary conditions Several numerical examples have been carried out to demonstrate the applicability and accuracy of the present method in free vibration analysis of both uniform plates and plates with variable thickness
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