thegeneralsolutionYmoofthehomogeneousdifferentialequationandtheparticularsolutionYmoofthenohomogeneousdifferentialequation.Thus,thesolutionofEq.()canbeexpressedas..Generalsolutionofgoverningequation()TofindthesolutionofEq.(),wefirstconsiderthefollowingfourth-orderhomogeneousdifferentialequationwithvariablecoefficients:TheaboveequationcanbetransformedintoaWhittakerequation,andthesolutioncanbeexpresaterialstiffnessvaryingalongthethicknessdirection.Thestudiesontheplateswithin—planevariablestiffnessarequitefew.Shang[]studiedtherectangularplateswithbidirectionallinearstiffnesswithtwooppositeedgessimplysupportedandtheothertwoedgesarbitrarilysupportedunderthedistributedloads.Yang[]investigatedthestructuralanalysisoftheplateswithunidirectionallyvaryingflexuralrigiditybytheGalerkinlinemethod.Liueta.[]analyzedthefreevibrationofaFunctionallygradedisotropicrectangularplatewithin—planematerialinhomogeneityusingtheLevy-typesoution.Uymazeta.[]ConsideredthefunctionallygradedplateswithpropertiesVaryinginanin—planedirectionbasedonafive—degree—of-freedomsheardeformableplatetheorywithdifferentboundaryconditions.Inthispaper,theLevy-typesolution[-]ispresentedforthebendingofathinrectangularplatewithin—planevariablestiffnessunderthedistributedload.BasicequationsConsiderathinrectangularplateoflengthAandwithBwithin-planeVariablestiffness,asshowninFig..IntroduceaCartesiancoordinatesystem—XYZsuchthat≤X≤A,≤Y≤BWeassume.ThattheflexuralrigidityoftheplateD=D(X,Y)isafunctionofXandY.Thegoverningequationoftheplatewithin—planeVariablestiffnesscanbeobtainedasWhereWisthetransversedisplacement,VisPoisson′sratio,andQisthenormalpressureonTheplate.第页ItisassumedthattheflexuralrigidityoftheplatevariesonlyalongtheY-directionaccordingtothefollowingpowerform:WhereYandParetwomaterialparametersdescribingtheinhomogeneityofD,Doistheflexuralrigidityat,Y=,andDbistheflexuralrigidityatY=b.Inthis‘case,Eq.()canbereducedtoSolutionTherectangularplateisassumedtobesimplysupportedalongtwooppositeedgesparalleltotheY-direction.Tosolvethegoverningequationwiththeprescribedboundaryconditions,ageneralizedLevy-typeapproachisemployedaswhereYm(y)isanunknownfunctiontobedetermined.SubstitutingEq.()intoEq.()yieldsthefollowingdifferentialequation:第页Thesolutionoftheaboveequationconsistsoftwoparts,i.e,thegeneralsolutionYmoofthehomogeneousdifferentialequationandtheparticularsolutionYmoofthenohomogeneousdifferentialequation.Thus,thesolutionofEq.()canbeexpressedas..Generalsolutionofgoverningequation()TofindthesolutionofEq.(),wefirstconsiderthefollowingfourth-orderhomogeneousdifferentialequationwithvariablecoefficients:TheaboveequationcanbetransformedintoaWhittakerequation,andthesolutioncanbeexpresMathematicalModeling,,-()[]Jodaei,A.,Jalal,M.,andYes,M.H.Freevibrationanalysisoffunctionallygradedannularplatesbestate-spacebaseddifferentialquadraturemethodandcomparativemodelingbeANN.Composites:PartB,,-()[]Wen,P.H.andAliabad,M.H.Analysisoffunctionallygradedplates勿meshlessmethod:apurelyanalyticalformulation.Evgiv,eeringArtalysi。withBoundaryElemiarts,,-()[]Liew,K.M.,Zhao,X.,andLee,Y.Y.Postbucklingresponsesoffunctionallygradedcylindricalshellsunderaxialcompressionandthermalloads.Composites:PartB,,-()[]Malekzadeh,P.,Fiouz,A.R.,andSahraouian,M.Three-dimensionalfreevibrationoffunctionallygradedtruncatedconicalshellssubjectedtothermalenvironment.Internatiov.alJournalofPressureVesselsacedPiping,,-()[]Sadeghi,H.,Baghani,M.,andNaghdabadi,R.Straingradientelasticitysolutionforfunctionallygradedmicro-cylinders.InternationalJournalofEngineeringScience,,-()[]Zenkour,A.M.Dynamicalbendinganalysisoffunctionallygradedinfinitecylinderwithrigidcore.AppliedMathematicsandComputation,,-()[]Shang,X.C.Exactsolutiononaproblemofbendingofdouble-directionrectangularelasticplatesofvariablerigidity(inChinese).JournalofLanzhouUniversity(NaturalSciences),(),-()[]Yang,J.ThestructuralanalysisofplateswithunidirectionalvaryingrigidityonGalekinlinemethod(inChinese).JournalofWuhan,InstituteofChemicalTechslogy,(),-第页()[]Liu,D.Y.,Wang,C.Y.,andChen,W.Q.FreevibrationofFGMplateswithin-planematerialinhomogeneity.CompositeStruct,,-()[]Uymaz,B.,Aided,M.,andFile,S.VibrationanalysesofFGMplateswithin-planematerialinhomogeneitybyRitzmethod.CompositeStructures,,-()[]Badeshi,M.andSaudi,A.R.Levy-typesolutionforbucklinganalysisofthickfunctionallygradedrectangularplatesbasedonthehigher-ordersheardeformationplatetheory.AppliedMathematicalModeling,,于()[]Thai,H.T.andKim,S.E.Levy-typesolutionforbucklinganalysisoforthotropicplatesbasedontwovariablerefinedplatetheories.CrocoitesStructures,,-()aterialstiffnessvryingalongthethicknessdirection.Thestudiesontheplateswithin—planevariablestiffnessarequitefew.Shang[]studiedtherectangularplateswithbidirectionallinearstiffnesswithtwooppositeedgessimplysupportedandtheothertwoedgesarbitrarilysupportedunderthedistributedloads.Yang[]investigatedthestructuralanalysisoftheplateswithunidirectionallyvaryingflexuralrigiditybytheGalerkinlinemethod.Liueta第页Analyticalsolutionnonrectangularplatewithin-planeVariablestiffnessTian-chongYU,Guo-junNIE,ZhengZHONG,Fu-yunCHU(SchoolofAerospaceEngineeringandAppliedMechanics,TongjiUniversity,Shanghai,P.R.China)Abstract:Thebendingproblemofathinrectangularplatewithin-planevariablestiffnessisstudied.Thebasicequationisformulatedforthetwo-opposite-edgesimplysupportedrectangularplateunderthedistributedloads.Theformulationisbasedontheassumptionthattheflexuralrigidityoftheplatevariesintheplanefollowingapowerform,andPoisson’sratioisconstant.Afourth-orderpartialdifferentialequationwithvariablecoefficientsisderivedbyassumingaLevy-typeformforthetransversedisplacement.ThegoverningequationcanbetransformedintoaWhittakerequation,andananalyticalsolutionisobtainedforathinrectangularplatesubjectedtothedistributedloads.Thevalidityofthepresentsolutionisshownbycomparingthepresentresultswiththoseoftheclassicalsolution.Theinfluenceofin-planevariablestiffnessonthedeflectionandbendingmomentisstudiedbynumericalexamples.Theanalyticalsolutionpresentedhereisusefulinthedesignofrectangularplateswithin-planevariablestiffness.Keywords:in-planevariablestiffness,powerform,Levy-typesolution,rectangularplateChineseLibraryClassificationMathematicsSubjectClassificationB第页IntroductionTheterm”variablestiffness”impliesthatthestiffnessparametersvaryspatiallythroughout.Thestructure[].Functionallygradedmaterials(FGMs)areinhomogeneouscomposites,inwhich.themechanicalpropertiesvarysmoothlywiththepositiontomeetthepredeterminedfunctional.performance.ThestructurescomposedoftheFGMsareofvariablestiffness.Thereareextensiveliteraturesonthebending,vibration,andfractureoftheFGMstructures[-].Thedeformationofafunctionallygradedbeamwasstudiedbythedirectapproach[].AnefficientandsimplyrefinedtheorywaspresentedforthebucklinganalysisoffunctionallygradedplatesbyThaiandChoi[].Jodaeieta[]dealtwiththethree—dimensionalanalysisoffunctionallygradedannularplatesusingthestate—spacebaseddifferentialquadraturemethod(SSDQM).WenandAiabadi[]investigatedfunctionallygradedplatesunderstaticanddynamicloadsbythelocalintegralequationmethod(LIEM).TherearealsosomeworksontheFGMshellsandcylinders[-].However,mostofthestudiesontheFGMsdealwithmaterialstiffnessvaryingalongthethicknessdirection.Thestudiesontheplateswithin—planevariablestiffnessarequitefew.Shang[]studiedtherectangularplateswithbidirectionallinearstiffnesswithtwooppositeedgessimplysupportedandtheothertwoedgesarbitrarilysupportedunderthedistributedloads.Yang[]investigatedthestructuralanalysisoftheplateswithunidirectionallyvaryingflexuralrigiditybytheGalerkinlinemethod.Liueta.[]analyzedthefreevibrationofaFunctionallygradedisotropicrectangularplatewithin—planematerialinhomogeneityusingtheLevy-typesoution.Uymazeta.[]ConsideredthefunctionallygradedplateswithpropertiesVaryinginanin—planedirectionbasedonafive—degree—of-freedomsheardeformableplatetheorywithdifferentboundaryconditions.Inthispaper,theLevy-typesolution[-]ispresentedforthebendingofathinrectangularplatewithin—planevariablestiffnessunderthedistributedload.BasicequationsConsiderathinrectangularplateoflengthAandwithBwithin-planeVariablestiffness,asshowninFig..IntroduceaCartesiancoordinatesystem—XYZsuchthat≤X≤A,≤Y≤BWeassume.ThattheflexuralrigidityoftheplateD=D(X,Y)isafunctionofXandY.Thegoverningequationoftheplatewithin—planeVariablestiffnesscanbeobtainedasWhereWisthetransversedisplacement,VisPoisson′sratio,andQisthenormalpressureonTheplate.第页ItisassumedthattheflexuralrigidityoftheplatevariesonlyalongtheY-directionaccordingtothefollowingpowerform:WhereYandParetwomaterialparametersdescribingtheinhomogeneityofD,Doistheflexuralrigidityat,Y=,andDbistheflexuralrigidityatY=b.Inthis‘case,Eq.()canbereducedtoSolutionTherectangularplateisassumedtobesimplysupportedalongtwooppositeedgesparalleltothe 第1页Analyticalsolutionnonrectangularplatewithin-planeVariablestiffnessTian-chongYU,Guo-junNIE,ZhengZHONG,Fu-yunCHU(SchoolofAerospaceEngineeringandAppliedMechanics,TongjiUniversity,Shanghai200092,P.R.China)Abstract:Thebendingproblemofathinrectangularplatewithin-planevariablestiffnessisstudied.Thebasicequationisformulatedforthetwo-opposite-edgesimplysup