Özet:

The vibrations of circular, annular and sector plates are different boundary value problems due to different edge conditions and thus have been treated separately using different solution algorithms and procedures. In this paper, a unified method is proposed for vibration analysis of moderately thick annular, circular plates and their sector counterparts with arbitrary boundary conditions. The unification of these plates is physically achieved by applying the coupling spring’s technique at the radial edges to ensure appropriate continuity conditions. Irrespective of the shape of the plate and the type of boundary conditions, each of the displacement function is expressed as a new form of trigonometric expansion with high convergence rate. Unlike most of the previous studies the current method can be universally applied to a wide range of vibration problems involving different shapes, boundary conditions, varying materials and geometric properties without modifying the solution algorithms and procedure. Furthermore, the current method can easily be applied to sector plates with an arbitrary inclusion angle of 2 π . The accuracy, reliability and versatility of the proposed method are fully demonstrated with several numerical examples for different shapes of plates and under different boundary conditions.

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