Hydroelastic behavior of a floating plate in waves

The behavior of a floating semi-infinite plate in surface waves incident normally to the edge of the plate is studied. We used an analytical solution of this problem obtained earlier by the Wiener–Hopf technique. In this paper, we study the distributions of displacements, deformations, and pressure over the plate as functions of the dimensionless parameters of the problem (reduced rigidity and depth) and their asymptotic distributions for large and small wavelengths.