Vibrations and Impedances of Rectangular Plates with Free Boundaries

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1. Introduction.
• 1.1 Substructure techniques in the dynamics of large flexible structures.
• 1.2 Remarks on the mechanical impedance and on the dynamic stiffness of elastic systems.
• 2. General considerations on the mechanical impedance and on the dynamic stiffness of plates.
• 2.1 The classical plate theory.
• 2.2 Plate impedances and the reduced multipoint impedance matrix.
• 2.3 Singularities in Kirchhoff plates.
• 2.4 Literature survey on plate vibrations.
• 3. Dynamic stiffness of rectangular plates.
• 3.1 Symmetric and antisymmetric vibrations.
• 3.2 The method of superposition.
• 3.3 Plate connected at center.
• 3.4 Plate connected at a point on a line of symmetry.
• 3.5 Plate connected at an arbitrary point.
• 3.6 On the reduced multipoint stiffness and impedance matrices.
• 3.7 Comparison with experiments.
• 3.8 Conclusions.
• 4. Final remarks.
• 5. Literature.