INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS, cilt.2, sa.2, ss.271-291, 2005 (SCI-Expanded)
An analysis of the geometrically nonlinear dynamics of thin circular plates on a two parameter elastic foundation is presented in this paper. The nonlinear partial differential equations obtained from von Karman's large deflection plate theory have been solved by using the harmonic differential quadrature method in the space domain and the finite difference numerical integration method in the time domain. Winkler-Pasternak foundation model is considered and the influence of stiffness of Winkler (K) and Pasternak (G) foundation on the geometrically nonlinear analysis of the circular plates has been investigated.