Analytical free vibration solutions of fully free orthotropic rectangular thin plates on two-parameter elastic foundations by the symplectic superposition method

Abstract

The free vibration of orthotropic rectangular thin plates with four free edges on two-parameter elastic foundations is studied by the symplectic superposition method. Firstly, by analyzing the boundary conditions, the original vibration problem is converted into two sub-vibration problems of the plates slidingly clamped at two opposite edges. Based on slidingly clamped at two opposite edges, the fundamental solutions of these two sub-vibration problems are respectively derived by the separation variable method of the corresponding Hamiltonian system, and then the symplectic superposition solution of the original vibration problem is obtained by superimposing the fundamental solutions of the two sub-problems. Finally, the symplectic superposition solution obtained in this study is verified by calculating the frequencies and mode functions of several concrete rectangular thin plates with four free edges.