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RECTANGULAR PLATES - Natural  Frequencies
Natural Frequencies of Rectangular Plate Bending Modes: plate.pdf
The Fundamental Bending Frequency of a Plate with Fixed-Free-Fixed-Free Boundary Conditions: fixed_free_fixed_free_plate.pdf
Matlab scripts:  fixed_free_fixed_free_plate.m
The Fundamental Bending Frequency of a Plate with Fixed-Free-Free-Free Boundary Conditions: cantilever_plate.pdf
Eric Reissner & Manuel Stein, Torsion and Transverse Bending of Cantilever Plates: naca-tn-2369.pdf

RECTANGULAR PLATE -   Fixed-Fixed-Fixed-Fixed Plate
The Fundamental Bending Frequency of a Plate with Fixed-Fixed-Fixed-Fixed Boundary Conditions:  fixed_fixed_fixed_fixed_plate.pdf
Steady-State Vibration Response of a Plate Fixed on All Sides Subjected to a Uniform Pressure:  fixed_plate_uniform_pressure.pdf
Matlab script: 
fixed_fixed_fixed_fixed_plate.m
Supporting Functions:

fixed_fixed_fixed_fixed_plate_pressure.m
fixed_fixed_fixed_fixed_plate_Rayleigh.m
materials.m
rectangular_plate_entry.m
RECTANGULAR PLATES - Point-Supported at Each Corner
The Fundamental Bending Frequency of a Square Plate with Fixed Corners and Otherwise Free Edges (Point-Supported at Each Corner): square_plate_corners.pdf
The Natural Frequency of a Rectangular Plate Point-Supported at Each Corner: plate_point_corner.pdf
Matlab scripts:  plate_corners.m  & pfunction.m
RECTANGULAR PLATES - Base Excitation, Frequency Response Functions & Modal Transient

Response of a Rectangular Plate to Base Excitation: plate_base_excitation.pdf

Simply-supported Plate:

Matlab Script:
ss_plate_base.m

Supporting functions:

integrate_function.m
fix_size.m

enter_time_history.m
plate_base_arbitrary.m
srs_coefficients_avd.m
plate_base_half_sine.m

rectangular_plate_entry_units.m
materials.m 


RECTANGULAR PLATES - Applied Pressure
The steady-state response of a rectangular plate simply-supported on all sides to a uniform pressure:  ss_plate_uniform_pressure.pdf  


The steady-state response of a rectangular plate simply-supported on all sides to a pressure field with spatial variation:  ss_plate_spatial_pressure.pdf


Matlab scripts:


ss_plate_uniform_frf.m

ss_plate_spatial_frf.m

Supporting functions:

materials.m

rectangular_plate_entry.m

RECTANGULAR PLATES - Applied Force
Natural frequency of  a rectangular plate simply supported on all sides including rotary inertia and shear deformation effects.  Also, response to impulse force.

Matlab Script:  ss_plate_rotary_shear.m

RECTANGULAR PLATES - Large Deflections
Samuel Levy, Square Plate with Clamped Edges Under Normal Pressure Producing Large Deflections: NACA-TN-847.pdf
Samuel Levy & Samuel Geenman, Bending with Large Deflection of a Clamped Rectangular Plate with Length Width Ratio of 1.5 under Normal Pressure: NACA-TN-853.pdf

RIGID RECTANGULAR PLATE OR FRAME
Modal Transient Response to Arbitrary Base Excitation via Convolution: modal_transient_arbitrary.pdf
Vibration Response of a Rigid Rectangular Plate or Frame Mounted on Four Springs: frame_modes.pdf
Vibration Response of a Rigid Rectangular Plate or Frame Subjected to Multiple Base Inputs: frame_modes_base.pdf
Matlab Scripts

Normal Modal Analysis: plate_4.m
Modal Transient Analysis for Base Excitation: plate_k2_base.m

HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PLATES
Natural Frequencies of Honeycomb Plates, includes Bending-Shear Transition: honeycomb.pdf

FEA Model 1: annular_bulkhead.nas
FEA Model 2: bending_shear.nas

LEISSA PLATES
Arthur W. Leissa, NASA SP-160, Vibration of Plates. Note that these are large files. The total file size is approximately 250 Mb. The format is MS Word with scanned images.
Lplates1.doc
Lplates2.doc
Lplates3.doc
Lplates4.doc
Lplates5.doc
Lplates6.doc
Lplates7.doc
Lplates8.doc
Lplates9.doc
Alternate:
Leissa_vibration_plates.pdf
THIN PLATE VIBRATION - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - RECTANGULAR ELEMENTS - NORMAL MODES

Transverse Vibration of a Plate Via the Finite Element Method, Four-Node, Two-Dimensional Rectangular Elements:  FEA_plate_bending.pdf

Matlab Script: 

rectangular_plate_fea.m  

Supporting Functions: 

rectangular_plate_apply_constraints.m
rectangular_plate_mass_stiff.m
rectangular_plate_materials.m
rectangular_plate_nodes_elements.m
rectangular_plate_constraints.m


plate_mass_stiff.m

materials.m
honeycomb_materials.m

Generalized_Eigen_fea.m
Generalized_Eigen.m
Generalized_Eigen_subspace.m

progressbar.m

pf_emm_fea_post1.m
mode_shape_correction.m

rectangular_elements_plot_modes.m

Alternate script with Optional Preprocessor for a Rectangular Plate:

plate_fea.m

plate_fea_pre.m

THIN PLATE VIBRATION - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - RECTANGULAR PLATE WITH RECTANGULAR ELEMENTS - ENFORCED ACCELERATION OR BASE EXCITATION

Matlab script:

rectangular_plate_base_accel_fea.m

Supporting functions:

rectangular_plate_th_plot.m

mdof_arbit_base_core.m
ramp_invariant_filter_coefficients.m
enter_time_history.m

mdof_half_sine_core.m

rectangular_plate_nodes_elements
.m
rectangular_plate_materials.m
rectangular_plate_mass_stiff.m

rectangular_plate_base_fea_post.m
rectangular_plate_constraint_nodes.m
rectangular_plate_drive_nodes.m
add_column.m

find_plot_limits.m
find_max.m
partition_matrices_accel.m
partition_matrices_accel_frf.m

Generalized_Eigen_fea.m
Generalized_Eigen.m
Generalized_Eigen_subspace.m

progressbar.m

THIN PLATE VIBRATION - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS

Plate Bending Frequencies via the Finite Element Method with Triangular Elements: triangular_plate_bending_specht.pdf

Matlab Script
triangular_specht.m

Supporting functions:
triangular_plate_specht_integrated_terms.m
triangular_plate_local.m
triangular_specht_cbar.m
materials.m
Generalized_Eigen_semidefinite.m
Generalized_Eigen.m
progressbar.m
honeycomb_materials.m

pf_emm_fea_post1.m
mode_shape_correction.m

triangular_elements_plot_modes.m

plate_materials_mass.m

THICK PLATE BENDING VIBRATION - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - RECTANGULAR ELEMENTS

A Four Node, Thick Rectangular Plate Bending Element: FEA_thick_rectangular_plate_bending.pdf

A Four Node, Isoparametric Plate Bending Element Mass Matrix: iso_plate_bending_mass.pdf

Jacobian Matrix & Determinant:  Jacobian.pdf


Matlab scripts:

thick_rectangular_plate_fea.m
thick_plate_mass_stiff.m

materials.m
Generalized_Eigen_semidefinite.m
Generalized_Eigen.m
progressbar.m
Generalized_Eigen_subspace.m

 

 

 Software Description

 Executable

  Source

Natural frequencies of beam modes, both lateral and longitudinal.
 beam.exe
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Natural frequencies of rectangular plates.
 plate.exe

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Natural frequencies of circular plates.
 circular.exe

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Single-degree-of-freedom System Natural Frequency.
 sdof_fn.exe

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Unit conversion  program.
units.exe

 

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