Free vibration analysis of circular plates by differential transformation method

Hasan Serter Yalcin, Aytac Arikoglu, Ibrahim Ozkol*

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Abstract

This study analyses the free vibrations of circular thin plates for simply supported, clamped and free boundary conditions. The solution method used is differential transform method (DTM), which is a semi-numerical-analytical solution technique that can be applied to various types of differential equations. By using DTM, the governing differential equations are reduced to recurrence relations and its related boundary/regularity conditions are transformed into a set of algebraic equations. The frequency equations are obtained for the possible combinations of the outer edge boundary conditions and the regularity conditions at the center of the circular plate. Numerical results for the dimensionless natural frequencies are presented and then compared to the Bessel function solution and the numerical solutions that appear in literature. It is observed that DTM is a robust and powerful tool for eigenvalue analysis of circular thin plates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)377-386
Number of pages10
JournalApplied Mathematics and Computation
Volume212
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2009

Keywords

  • Circular plate
  • Differential transform method
  • Free vibration
  • Regularity conditions

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