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Continuum-based free vibration of circular trigonal and isotropic plates

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Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Paul R. Heyliger

Abstract

The free vibration behavior of completely unrestrained elastic circular plates with trig- onal and isotropic material symmetry is studied using approximate solutions to the three- dimensional theory of linear elasticity. Of primary interest are 1) the influence of trigonal material symmetry on the modes of free vibration, and 2) the relative accuracy of thin plate theory as compared to the more exact three-dimensional theory. Frequencies are calculated based on approximations of the weak form of the equations of motion for the plate using the Ritz method formulated in cylindrical coordinates that allows a splitting of the resulting eigenvalue problem using group theory. Representative examples are given and quantitative limits are discussed.
Citation
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
134
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

disks, elasticity, group theory, isotropic material, Ritz method, trigonal crystals, trigonal plates, vibrational modes
Materials and Modeling and simulation research

Citation

Johnson, W. and Heyliger, P. (2013), Continuum-based free vibration of circular trigonal and isotropic plates, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, [online], https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4812261 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created May 28, 2013, Updated June 2, 2021
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