SOLUTION OF FREE HARMONIC VIBRATION EQUATION OF SIMPLY SUPPORTED KIRCHHOFF PLATE BY GALERKIN-VLASOV METHOD

Authors

  • BO Mama DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA. ENUGU STATE. NIGERIA
  • HN Onah DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA. ENUGU STATE. NIGERIA
  • CC Ike DEPT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, ENUGU STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, ENUGU. ENUGU STATE. NIGERIA
  • NN Osadebe DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA. ENUGU STATE. NIGERIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4314/njt.362.1282

Keywords:

Kirchhoff plate, Galerkin-Vlasov method, harmonic vibration, natural vibrations, eigen frequencies.

Abstract

This work studies the dynamic characteristics of simply supported rectangular thin plates undergoing natural transverse vibrations in harmonic motion. The governing partial differential equation for the free transverse vibration of the plate was solved by the Galerkin-Vlasov variational technique. The assumption of free harmonic motions reduced the governing equation to an algebraic eigen value eigen­vector problem, which was solved in the space domain to obtain the eigen frequencies and modal shape functions of the vibrating Kirchhoff plate. The eigen frequencies and modal shape functions obtained were found to be identical with the results obtained by the classical methods of Navier and Levy for the same problem.

 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v36i2.6

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2017-03-31

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Building, Civil & Geotechnical Engineering

How to Cite

SOLUTION OF FREE HARMONIC VIBRATION EQUATION OF SIMPLY SUPPORTED KIRCHHOFF PLATE BY GALERKIN-VLASOV METHOD. (2017). Nigerian Journal of Technology, 36(2), 361-365. https://doi.org/10.4314/njt.362.1282

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