Further study on large deflection of circular sandwich plates

In this paper, a nonlinear solution is first presented for a circular sandwich plate with the flexure rigidity of the face layers taken into account. In solving the nonlinear bending equations, a modified power series method is proposed. The uniformly distributed loading and the clamped but sliding boundary condition are also assumed. Then our results are compared with those from Liu Ren-huai and Shi-Yun-fang[15]. The present solution can be used as a more accurate basis in engineering applications.