An analytical formula of the exact solution to von Kármán's equations of a cicular plate under a concentrated load (Q808829)

In this paper, von Kármán's equations for the axisymmetric deformation of a circular plate under a concentrated load at the center is reformulated in the integral equation form by using Green's function. The integral equation suggests a natural iterative procedure for constructing an infinit series solution. Uniform convergence of the series and, consequently, the existence and certain properties of the solution are proved. The paper demonstrates the power of the integral equation method in the analysis of nonlinear problems involving large deflection of plates and, from a mathematical point of view, is both interesting and important. The analytical formulae for the successive iterative solutions presented in the paper do not show the explicit expressions for the coefficients of the series solutions except for the first iterative solution. From a practical viewpoint, one might also regret that the authors did not provide the graphs of the first few iterative solutions which would have shown the trend of convergence and the results of comparison with the various existing numerical solutions.