In this paper, a quadrilateral element is proposed for the analysis of thin plate bending. This element is non-conforming and consists of four-nodes and twelve degrees of freedom. A third-order field for the element displacement is written in terms...

Dynamic response of a thin rectangular plate traversed by a moving inertia load with ar- bitrary boundary condition is investigated through this paper. The inertia effect of mass is considered and relevant formulation is ...

Thin plate welding is employed in a variety of industries, including production of automobile, ships structures and metal tanks. In the welding process, the moving electrode causes highly non-uniform temperature distribution that leads to residual...

The present study is concerned with the elastic/plastic buckling of thin rectangular plates under

various loads and boundary conditions. The in-plane loads are placed uniformly and linearly varying

in the ...

Despite the high importance of orthotropic bending plate, up to now, only a few studies have been performed based on the analytical solution for analysis of these structures. In this paper, an efficient element is proposed ...

In this paper, two efficient elements for analyzing thin plate bending are proposed. They are a triangular element (THS) and a quadrilateral element (QHS), which have 9 and 12 degrees of freedom, respectively. Formulations of these elements...

The Boundary Characteristic Orthogonal Polynomials (BCOP) method is used in this study in order to analyze multi-span plates traversed by a moving inertia load traveling on an arbitrary path with constant velocity. The ...