Abstract
This paper develops analytical methods to predict the bending behavior of skewed thick plates under transverse load on the Winkler foundation, which has not been re ported in the literature. The thick plate solution is obtained by using a framework of an oblique coordinate system. To include the effect of transverse shear deformation, the Mindlin ' s theory is employed to analyze the plates. First, the governing differential equation in that system is derived, and the solution is obtained using deflection and rotation as derivatives of the potential function developed here. This method is applicable for arbitrary loading conditions, boundary conditions, and materials. The solution technique is applied to three illustrative application examples, and the results are compared with literature and numerical solutions derived by the commercial finite element package ANSYS 11. All approaches yielde d results in reasonable agreement.
