Vibration of Rectangular Mindlin Plates by the Spline Strip Method

Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the vibrations of rectangular Mindlin plates by the spline strip method. To demonstrate the convergence and accuracy of the method, several examples are solved, and results are compared with those obtained by analytical and other numerical methods. Stable convergence and excellent accuracy are obtained by using high order spline strip models. Frequencies of rectangular thick plates with several boundary conditions have been obtained and the results are presented in tabular form.