Download or read book Anisotropic Elastic Plates written by Chyanbin Hwu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As structural elements, anisotropic elastic plates find wide applications in modern technology. The plates here are considered to be subjected to not only inplane load but also transverse load. In other words, both plane and plate bending problems as well as the stretching-bending coupling problems are all explained in this book. In addition to the introduction of the theory of anisotropic elasticity, several important subjects have are discussed in this book such as interfaces, cracks, holes, inclusions, contact problems, piezoelectric materials, thermoelastic problems and boundary element analysis.