Abstract: In this paper, the generalizd variational principles of plate bending, froblems are established from their minimum potential energy principle and minimum complementary energy principle through the elimination of their constraints by means of the method of Lagrange multipliers. The involutory transformations are also introduced in order to reduce the order of differentiations for the variables in the variation. Funhermore, these involutory transformations become infacl the additional constraints in the varialion. and additional Lagrange multipliers may be used in order to remove these additional constraints. Thus, various multi-variable variational principles are obtained for the plate bending problems. However, it is observed that. nol all the constrainls ofva’iaticn can be removed simply by the ordinary method of linear Lagrange multipliers. In such cases, the method of high-order Lagrange multipliers are usedto remove iliose constrainls left over by ordinary linear multiplier method. And consequently. some funct ionals of more general forms are oblained for the generaleed variational principles of plate bending problems.

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