TY - EJOU AU - Chudinovich, I. AU - Constanda, C. TI - Contact Problems in Bending of Elastic Plates T2 - The International Conference on Computational \& Experimental Engineering and Sciences PY - 2008 VL - 5 IS - 3 SN - 1933-2815 AB - An initial-boundary value problem for bending of a piecewise homogeneous thermoelastic plate with transverse shear deformation [1] is considered. The unique solvability in distributional spaces is proved by means of a combination of the Laplace transformation and variational methods. This is the first, and essential, step in the construction of boundary element methods for numerical approximations of the solution. The model without thermal effects has been studied in [2]--[6]. KW - DO - 10.3970/icces.2008.005.137