Plane Problem of Surface Wave Diffraction on a Floating Elastic Plate

The problem of the behavior of a floating elastic strip-shaped plate in waves is considered. A new numerical method for solving this problem based on the Wiener-Hopf technique is proposed. The solution of the boundary value problem is reduced to an infinite system of linear algebraic equations which satisfies the reduction conditions. The calculation results are compared both with experiment and with the calculations of other authors. In the case of short incident waves the system of equations obtained can be essentially simplified. Three short-wave approximations are proposed, namely, the single-mode, four-mode and uniform approximations, which ensure good agreement with calculations based on the complete model. Simple explicit formulas are obtained for the single-mode and uniform approximations.