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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the refining of thin plate theories. In this paper, the method of matching asymptotic expansions is used to obtain one such refinement which is believed to be an improvement on several previous results. Previous authors(Habip (1967), Widera (1969)) attempted such refinemnts within the framework of a partially nonlinear theory of elasticity whereas in the present work all terms neglected by these authors have been retained.