M. Tanaka et al., APPLICATION OF BOUNDARY-DOMAIN ELEMENT METHOD TO THE FREE-VIBRATION PROBLEM OF PLATE STRUCTURES, Computers & structures, 66(6), 1998, pp. 725-735
The boundary-domain element method is applied to the free vibration pr
oblem of thin-walled plate structures. The static fundamental solution
s are used for the derivation of the integral equations for both in-pl
ane and out-of-plane motions. All the integral equations to be impleme
nted are regularized up to an integrable order and then discretized by
means of the boundary-domain element method. The entire system of equ
ations for the plate structures composed of thin elastic plates is obt
ained by assembling the equations for each plate component satisfying
the equilibrium and compatibility conditions on the connected edge as
well as the boundary conditions. The algebraic eigenvalue equation is
derived from this system of equations and is able to be solved by usin
g the standard solver to obtain eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes. Numer
ical analysis is carried out for a few example problems and the comput
ational aspects are discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All righ
ts reserved.