Free vibration analysis of cracked Kirchhoff-Love plate using the extended radial point interpolation method

For plate bending problems, using a plate theory to model thin plate structures is less computationally expensive than 3D modelling. The Kirchhoff-Love plate theory is appropriate for analysing thin plate structures. If the membrane deformation is ignored in the KirchhoffLove plate, each node has only one degree of freedom – the deflection.