The thermomechanical behavior of a flexible orthotropic round plate of variable thickness

The buckling of a round orthotropic flexible plate vf variable thickness is studied. The sagging of the plate under both contour loading and nonuniform heating is considered. Algebraic polynomials are used as coordinate functions to construct approximate solutions of the corresponding equations. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 115–123, February, 2000.