LARGE-AMPLITUDE VIBRATION OF THIN HOMOGENEOUS ORTHOTROPIC ELASTIC PLATES UNDER UNIFORM HEATING REVISITED

The paper deals with the non-linear vibration of homogeneous elastic p lates of uniform thickness made of orthotropic material under uniform heating. The governing partial differential equations are deduced by t he method of constant deflection contour lines, proposed by Mazumdar a nd Jones and subsequently modified by Sinha Ray and Banerjee. The time -dependent non-linear differential equation has finally been solved by the simple and elegant method of Adomian.