Large deformation analysis of moderately thick viscoelastic plates

This paper presents a new formulation for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of viscoelastic Mindlin plates with low computational cost and high computational precision. The equations are derived according to the Von-Karman assumptions and total Lagrangian formulations. The displacement field is approximated by the product of two separate functions, a function of geometrical parameters and a function of time parameter. Incremental...