An Energy-Based Perspective Into Deformation of Plates with Anisotropic Material Properties
摘要
This study presents a systematic and mathematically rigorous approach for deriving a displacement-based reduced-order plate model. The presented approach refrains from ad hoc or a priori assumptions. It treats a plate as a 3D structure and gradually develops a reduced-order 2D model for it, accounting for its geometry and keeping strains bounded by \(\varepsilon \ll 1\) consistently. The final strains obtained through the present approach exactly match those given by Classical Plate Theory (CPT), demonstrating that the present plate theory is energetically equivalent to CPT plate theory.