Deflection of a Very Large Floating Platform with variable elastic properties

At the 16th IWWWFB we presented results for the deformation of a VLFP with constant elastic parameters. The short-wave theory we presented made use of an integral-differential equation. The theory is extended for finite water depth making use of a special choice of the Green’s function. In this presentation we apply the ray method to the inhomogeneous case. The constant parameter case serve