Vibration and buckling of parabolically tapered polar orthotropic annular plates on elastic foundation (Q1819601)

The present paper analyzes the effect of hydrostatic peripheral loading and that of elastic foundation on the natural frequencies of free axisymmetric vibrations and critical buckling parameter of parabolically tapered annular plates exhibiting polar orthotropy on the basis of classical plate theory. The governing fourth order linear differential equation has been solved by using Chebyshev polynomials for three different boundary conditions: inner and outer both clamped; inner clamped and outer simply supported; inner free and outer clamped. Transverse displacements, moments for a particular set of plate parameters and buckling loads in compression for different values of taper constant, foundation modulus for various values of rigidity ratios have been computed for first two modes of vibration. A comparison of our results with those available in literature shows a reasonable agreement.