FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF ARBITRARILY SHAPED PLATES WITH A MIXED BOUNDARY CONDITION USING NON-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS

A new approach using the non-dimensional dynamic influence functions has been developed for free vibration analysis of arbitrarily shaped plates with a mixed boundary condition involving both simply supported edges and clamped ones. Since the proposed method is based on the collocation method using one-dimensional and wave-type functions, no integration procedure is needed on boundary edges of the plate of interest and numerical calculation schemes are relatively concise. In order to settle the incompleteness of the system matrix, which is due to the discarding of a complex natural boundary condition at simply supported edges, an additional simple equation is devised by means of using a geometric approximation on curved edges. Finally, verification examples show that a complete system matrix formed in this way successfully gives accurate eigenvalues compared with FEM (ANSYS) and other methods.