NONLINEAR-ANALYSIS OF HEATED RHOMBIC PLATES

This paper concerns a new approach to the investigation of non-linear behaviours of heated rhombic plates. A new set of differential equatio ns in oblique co-ordinates have been derived in this investigation. Nu merical results showing central deflection parameters versus thermal l oad functions have been computed for different skew angles theta. For theta = theta-degrees the results obtained in the present study are in excellent agreement with the known results. It is believed that the r esults obtained for other different skew angles are completely new.