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Free and Forced Vibrations of Thick Rectangular Plates using Higher-Order Shear and Normal Deformable Plate Theory and Meshless Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Method

L. F. Qian^1,2, R. C. Batra³, L. M. Chen¹

1 Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, P. R. China
2 Presently visiting scholar at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3 Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, MC 0219 Blacksburg, VA 24061