Finite-difference method of solving the bending problem for glass-reinforced plastic plates with allowance for creep

A new finite-difference method is proposed for solving the bending problem as it applies to thin rectangular orthotropic plates of linear hereditary material. The proposed method makes it possible to obtain a closed approximate solution in explicit form for a series of finite-difference systems of equations corresponding to the problem of the bending of plates of orthotropic glass-reinforced plastic with allowance for the rheological properties of the material under various boundary conditions.Institute of Cybernetics and Computer Center, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1075–1082, November–December, 1969.