Closure to “Discussion of ‘Combinations for the Free-Vibration Behavior of Anisotropic Rectangular Plates Under General Edge Conditions’ ” (2001, ASME J. Appl. Mech., 68, p. 687)

Contrary to what Professor Ru stated in his first sentence, the paper did not discuss “conformal mapping” techniques applied to anisotropic plane elasticity. The paper discussed “mapping” in anisotropic elasticity. As emphasized in Section 4 of the paper, mapping in anisotropic elasticity is not conformal. Many papers that dealt with mapping in anisotropic elasticity used the word conformal mapping indiscriminately.

I have presented clearly what I wanted to say in the paper. I have no further comments.