http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (xv, 411 pages) : illustrations
"Structural designs in aeronautical, marine, mechanical, and civil engineering often incorporate regular, irregular, and complex-shaped members to reduce costly material, lighten loads, provide ventilation, and alter structures' resonant frequencies. Vibration of Plates gives engineering and architecture professionals optimal methods of analyzing the vibration that can result from this practice to understand how it affects the behavior of complex structures. This comprehensive, self-contained introduction to vibration theory and analysis of two-dimensional plates reflects the author's more than 15 years of original research on plate vibration. The text also offers background information on vibration problems along with a discussion of various plate geometries and boundary conditions, including the new concepts of Boundary Characteristic Orthogonal Polynomials (BCOPs)."--Jacket
Background of vibration -- Methods of analysis for vibration problems -- Vibration basics for plates -- Exact, series-type, and approximate methods for transverse vibration of plates -- Development of characteristic orthogonal polynomials (COPs) in vibration problems -- Boundary characteristic orthogonal polynomials (BCOPs) in vibration of plates -- Transverse vibration of elliptic and circular plates -- Triangular plates -- Rectangular and skew plates -- Circular annular and elliptic annular plates -- Plates with nonhomogeneous material properties -- Plates with variable thickness -- Plates with orthotropic material properties -- Plates with hybrid complicating effects.
Includes bibliographical references and index.