Free In-Plane Vibrations of Orthotropic Rectangular Plates by Using an Accurate Solution

Abstract

Many numerical methods have been developed for in-plane vibration of orthotropic rectangular plates with various boundary conditions; however, the exact results for such structures with elastic boundary conditions are very scarce. Therefore, the object of this paper is to present an accurate solution for free in-plane vibration of orthotropic rectangular plates with various boundary conditions by the method of reverberation ray matrix (MRRM) and improved golden section search (IGSS) algorithm. The boundary condition studied in this paper is defined as that a set of opposite edges is with one kind of simply supported boundary conditions, while the other set is with any kind of classical and general elastic boundary conditions or their combination. Its accuracy, reliability, and efficiency are verified by some numerical examples where the results are compared with other exact solutions in the published literature and the FEA results based on the ABAQUS software. Finally, some new accurate results for free in-plane vibration of orthotropic rectangular plates with elastic boundary conditions are examined and further can be treated as the reference data for other approximate methods or accurate solutions.