J. Labaki1, E. Mesquita2, R. K. N. D. Rajapakse3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.5, pp. 281-313, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.281
Abstract This paper introduces a numerical model to investigate the vibratory response of elastic and rigid circular plates embedded in viscoelastic, transversely isotropic, three-dimensional layered media. In the present numerical scheme, the boundary-value problem corresponding to the case of time-harmonic concentrated and distributed axisymmetric vertical ring loads within a layered half-space is formulated according to an exact stiffness method. Its solution results in the required influence functions for the modeling of the present problem. The case of an embedded flexible plate is formulated in terms of a variational method. The deflection profile of the plate is… More >