Separated Solution Procedure for Bending of Circular Plates With Circular Holes

Abstract

A separated solution procedure is presented for the two-dimensional bi-harmonic equation on circular domains with circular holes and arbitrary boundary conditions. The solutions use the traditional trigonometric Fourier series on the boundaries with a power series decay into the domain. The interaction of the boundaries is expressed simply and exactly resulting in quick processing time. The only simplification made is the use of a finite number of terms in the boundary conditions.