Abstract
Recent work on isotropic curved sector plates provided an exact solution that could be used both as a benchmark for numerical methods and as an efficient tool for quick and economical parametric studies. Its present extension to the case of cylindrical orthotrophy shows that similar ‘closed-form’ solutions require the formal consideration of four possible regimes and these are fully listed. Although the first of these is likely to be of main practical interest, any of the remaining three cases might become relevant in special instances of orthotrophy combined with specific term numbers in the Fourier series solutions on which the method is based. Illustrative examples are given by reference to the problem of collinear compression.
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