THE BOUNDARY INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OFA BIHARMONIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM

1.IntroductionWeconsiderahomogeneousisotropicandlinearelasticKirchhoffplateunderlateralloaddistributedovertheplatefix[--t,t].ThedomainfiERZisboundedwiththesmoothboundaryr.Inthestaticequilibrium,weconsiderthefreetypeboundaryconditiononr.Thenthedeflectionusatisfiesthefollowingproblem:whereD~--E0h'.12(1--ac,isthebendingstiffnessoftheplatewithhbeingtheplatethicknessandEOandu(0相似文献   

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