The natural vibrations of thin (Kirchhoff-Love) plates with constant and variable thickness and interaction with water are considered in the paper. The influence of the water free surface on natural frequencies of the coupled water-plate system is analysed too. The Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Finite Difference Method (FDM) are used to describe structural deformation and the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is applied to describe the dynamic interaction of water on a plate surface. The plate inertia forces are expressed by diagonal or consistent mass matrix. The water inertia forces are described by fully-populated mass matrix which is obtained directly from the theory of double layer potential.
The free damped vibrations of thin (Kirchhoff-Love) plates equipped with viscoelastic dampers are considered in the paper. It is assumed that the dampers are described according to the generalized rheological model. Influence of temperature on the parameters of dampers is taken into account using the frequency-temperature correspondence principle. Isotropic and rectangular plates are analysed in numerical tests included in this study. The natural frequencies and non-dimensional damping ratios are determined for these plates by solving the non-linear eigenproblem using the continuation method. The Finite Element Method is used to determine the stiffness matrix and the mass matrix occurring in the considered eigenproblem. The results of exemplary numerical calculations are presented and discussed at the end of this paper.
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