INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS, cilt.7, sa.2, ss.229-240, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
The free vibration of sector plates based on the classical Kirchhoff plate theory is analyzed by the method of discrete singular convolution using the Regularized Shannon delta (RSD) kernel. This method is applied to sector plates with a combination of boundary conditions, and the natural frequencies are calculated. The effects of the sector angle, boundary conditions and mode numbers on the frequency parameters are investigated. Comparisons are made with existing numerical and analytical solutions in the literature. This method is very effective for the study of vibration problems of sector plates.