A Power Series Solution for Free Vibration of Variable Thickness Mindlin Circular Plates with Two-Directional Material Heterogeneity and Elastic Foundations

Subject Areas : Engineering

M.M Alipour ¹ , M Shariyat ²

1 - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology
2 - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology

Received: 2011-05-31 Accepted : 2011-07-15 Published : 2011-06-30

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