ABSTRACT

Thin-plate theory, which describes the behavior of isotropic plates subject to in-plane and out-of-plane loads, was developed throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is now well established. Many textbooks devoted to isotropic plates theory have been published; two typical examples are References 1, 2. Although thin-plate theory is also applicable to anisotropic plates, relatively few texts devoted to this topic have appeared. Two of the best-known references are those by Whitney [3] and Turvey and Marshall [4].