“…This problem will become much more serious for plates that are elastically restrained along its edges. This is probably the reason why the previous investigations have been mostly focused on the problems that involve some kind of simplifications with respect to the arrangement of elastic restraints (Carmichael, 1959;Warburton and Edney, 1984;Gorman, 1980;Bapat et al, 1988). To substitute for the beam functions, one can use other forms of admissible functions such as simple or orthogonal polynomials, trigonometric functions and their combinations (Cupial, 1997;Bhat, 1985;Dickinson 1986;Filipich and Rosales, 2000;Beslin and Nicolas, 1997;Zhou, 1996;Hurlebaus and Gaul, 2001;Ramkumar et al, 1987).…”