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Thin periodic plates with uncertain properties in a periodicity cell are investigated. To describe dynamics of these plates the non-asymptotic tolerance modelling method, cf. Woźniak and Wierzbicki (Averaging techniques in thermomechanics of composite solids. Wydawnictwo Politechniki Częstochowskiej, Częstochowa, 15), Woźniak et al. (eds.) (Thermomechanics of microheterogeneous solids and structures. Tolerance averaging approach. Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, Łódź, 16), for those plates is applied. The governing equations of tolerance models based on this method take into account the effect of period lengths on the overall behaviour of the plate. Hence, the additional effects of the periodicity can be analysed, as higher order vibrations. Moreover, properties of the plate in the periodicity cell are determined uncertainly. To analyse an influence of random variables of the properties with a fixed probability distribution on vibrations of the plate the Monte Carlo analysis is applied.