In the present paper a new linearization technique referred to as the locally transversal linearization (LTL) is used for large deflection analyses of axisymmetric circular plates. The LTL procedure, where solution manifolds of linearized equations are made to intersect transversally those of the nonlinear ordinary differential equations, reduces the given set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations to a set of nonlinear algebraic equations in terms of a descretized set of unknown response vectors.

Issue Section:
Brief Notes
Keywords:
bending, initial value problems, differential equations
Topics:
Deflection, Differential equations, Algebra
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