Dynamic response of various von Kármán nonlinear plate models and their 3-D counterparts (Q2500546)

The complete dynamic von-Kármán system of three coupled non-linear PDEs governing dynamic behavior of a plate under external excitation is introduced with reference to relevant literature. Two levels of simplifications are considered neglecting terms with \(h^2\) (\(h-\) plate thickness). The solution method is based on the Legendre collocation method for the spatial discretization. The square plates of dimensionless thickness \(h=0.1, 0.01, 0.001\) are investigated under uniformly and cosine form distributed dynamic loading with Heaviside and exponentially decaying time coordinate. The aim of the paper is an evaluation of the above simplifications of governing PDE on final numerical results of displacement amplitudes and frequencies. Results are compared with those obtained by FEM and using linearized Kirchhoff-Love model. Conclusions are very detailed, interesting (even if not surprising) and worthy to be studied. In principle the differences between individual models are small or negligible. Nevertheless, the value of results is limited by the task formulation. The large variety of its dynamic character is only un-sufficiently respected. Asymptotic methods with respect to space coordinates and especially to time are not mentioned. Sensitivity of model variants (complete, full, simplified and FE reference) to increasing excitation frequency is not investigated when modal analysis should be done. List of references includes 15 items referring mostly author's papers and general books. Therefore many aspects of the problem remained hidden. For instance the Reissner algorithms and other approaches being widely used in seventieth and eighties of the previous century for similar purposes (linear/non-linear models of thick plates and shells) should be taken into consideration. So that, a significantly wider appraisal of the state of the art taking into account other approaches and solution algorithms would be useful.