“…As shown in Figure 7, the plate is considered to be clamped at one short edge and supported by nonlinear springs at the other short edge. As illustrated in Figure 1(d), the spring force function can be expressed by ( ) = + 3 , where , , and denote spring stiffness, displacement, and small constant, respectively. In this example, can be taken as 10, 100, and +∞ N/mm, respectively, where the case of = +∞ indicates simply supported constraint, takes the value of 0.1, and transient responses of the plate supported by nonlinear springs with different stiffness are analyzed.…”