Starting with the forced vibration governing equations for a uniform crosssection circular arch with the consideration of tangential inertia effect, the solution of displacement response of the arch is obtained. In this solution, the generalized differential quadrature method in space domain is adopted. Theresponse at each node is expressed as time series in time domain. Then, a set of sixthorder partial differential equations is obtained and solved by means of collocation method in the time domain. Finally, solution of the displacement response field is obtained. The inplane forced vibration problem of the circular arch with appropriately prescribed boundary constraint conditions is analyzed. A program is written in Matlab code for solving this problem. And some numerical examples are given. The results indicate that this method has the advantages of higher accuracy and efficiency for forced vibration analysis of circular arches.