ABSTRACT
The finite strip method provides a very convenient tool for the accurate analysis of rectangular or sector plates with an opposite pair of partially clamped sides. The solution procedure is started in the same way as in a standard finite strip analysis in which, first of all, a plate is divided into strips with preset end conditions which may differ from strip to strip. Vibration and stability of moderately thick plates were stuthed by Hinton and Dawe. The fundamental frequencies of square moderately thick plates clamped on four sides were computed by Roufaeil and Dawe. If the structure is moving then it is also possible to reduce the dynamic problem to a static one by applying D’Alembert’s principle of dynamic equilibrium in which an inertia force equal to the product of the mass and the acceleration is assumed to act on the structure in the direction of negative acceleration.
