scumechanics/vibrations-of-mindlin-plates

A collection of Python codes to find the natural frequencies of Reissner-Mindlin (thick) plates.

Vibrations of Reissner-Mindlin plates

A collection of Python codes to find the natural frequencies of Reissner-Mindlin (thick) plates.

Keywords:

• free vibration analysis
• dispersion relation
• characteristic equation root finding
• pseudo-spectral methods

Source articles

• Hashemi and Arsanjani (2005) Exact characteristic equations for some of classical boundary conditions of vibrating moderately thick rectangular plates
• Lee and Schultz (2004) Eigenvalue analysis of Timoshenko beams and axisymmetric Mindlin plates by the pseudospectral method