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Time-dependent response of a heterogeneous elastic plate floating on shallow water of variable depth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2009

IZOLDA V. STUROVA*
Affiliation:
Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Lavrentyev Prospect 15, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
*
Email address for correspondence: sturova@hydro.nsc.ru

Abstract

The problem of unsteady behaviour of a floating thin plate is solved. The simultaneous motion of the plate and the fluid is considered within the framework of linear shallow-water theory. It is assumed that the bottom is not uniform in depth under the heterogeneous plate represented by an infinitely extended strip of finite width. The elastic deflection of the plate is expressed by a superposition of modal functions of a homogeneous beam with free edge conditions. The time-dependent unknown amplitudes are determined from the solution of a linear set of ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. The eigenvalues of this set are determined numerically. Proposed method is used for the solution of three unsteady problems: the scattering of localized surface wave by an elastic plate, decay of the initial deformation of the plate in the fluid at rest and the action of a periodic load on a plate. Numerical calculations are performed for the ice sheet with the variable thickness and various bottom topographies.

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