Grillage Analysis of Plates for Vibration and Stability

Abstract

This study deals with the problem of approximating the dynamic and staticanalysis of plates by using equivalent grid-framework model. The emphasis, forplate analysis, is on the stability and vibration analysis. Numerical results arepresented for many example problems, and they indicate that the adopted method isreasonably accurate. For vibration analysis of plates using beam-column analogythe percentage of error is depends on mesh size.