Natural frequencies and mode shapes of arbitrary beam structures with arbitrary boundary conditions

2007 ◽  
Vol 300 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 280-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Wiedemann
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meixia Chen ◽  
Jianhui Wei ◽  
Kun Xie ◽  
Naiqi Deng ◽  
Guoxiang Hou

Wave based method which can be recognized as a semi-analytical and semi-numerical method is presented to analyze the free vibration characteristics of ring stiffened cylindrical shell with intermediate large frame ribs for arbitrary boundary conditions. According to the structure type and the positions of discontinuities, the model is divided into different substructures whose vibration field is expanded by wave functions which are exactly analytical solutions to the governing equations of the motions of corresponding structure type. Boundary conditions and continuity equations between different substructures are used to form the final matrix to be solved. Natural frequencies and vibration mode shapes are calculated by wave based method and the results show good agreement with finite element method for clamped-clamped, shear diaphragm – shear diaphragm and free-free boundary conditions. Free vibration characteristics of ring stiffened cylindrical shells with intermediate large frame ribs are compared with those with bulkheads and those with all ordinary ribs. Effects of the size, the number and the distribution of intermediate large frame rib are investigated. The frame rib which is large enough is playing a role as bulkhead, which can be considered imposing simply supported and clamped constraints at one end of the cabin and dividing the cylindrical shell into several cabins vibrating separately at their own natural frequencies.


Author(s):  
Gen Li ◽  
Yufeng Xing ◽  
Zekun Wang

For rectangular thick plates with non-Levy boundary conditions, it is important to explore analytical free vibration solutions because the classical inverse and semi-inverse exact solution methods are not applicable to this category of problems. This work is to develop an extended separation-of-variable (SOV) method to find closed-form analytical solutions for the free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates with arbitrary homogeneous boundary conditions. In the extended SOV method, characteristic differential equations and boundary conditions in two directions are obtained by employing the Rayleigh principle and the assumption that the mode functions are in the SOV form, and two transcendental eigenvalue equations are achieved through boundary conditions. But these two eigenvalue equations cannot be solved simultaneously since there are two equations and only the natural frequency is the unknown variable. Considering this, the second assumption in this method is that the natural frequencies corresponding to two-direction mode functions are independent of each other in the mathematical sense, thus there are two unknowns in two transcendental eigenvalue equations, and the closed-form solutions for plates with arbitrary boundary conditions can be obtained non-iteratively. From the physical sense, the natural frequencies pertaining to different direction mode functions should be the same, and this conclusion is validated analytically and numerically. The present natural frequencies and mode shapes agree well with those obtained by other analytical and numerical methods. Especially, for the plates with at least two opposite sides simply supported, the present solutions are exact.


1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thein Wah

SummaryThis paper presents a general procedure for calculating the natural frequencies of rectangular plates continuous over identical and equally spaced elastic beams which are simply-supported at their ends. Arbitrary boundary conditions are permissible on the other two edges of the plate. The results are compared with those obtained by using the orthotropic plate approximation for the system


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
V. O¨zerciyes

The problem of the free flexural (or bending) vibrations of a rectangular, composite base plate or panel stiffened by a bonded, noncentral stiffening plate strip is considered. The lower composite base plate and the upper stiffening plate strip are assumed as dissimilar Mindlin Plates connected by a very thin and deformable adhesive layer. In the formulation, the entire composite system is considered to have simply supported edges in one direction while the other two edges may have arbitrary boundary conditions. The set of governing partial differential equations is reduced to a “special form” of a system of the first order ordinary differential equations. Then, they are integrated by the “Modified Transfer Matrix Method (with Interpolation Polynomials).” The mode shapes and the natural frequencies of the composite system are investigated and presented in detail for several boundary conditions. It was also found that the “hardness” and the “softness” of the in-between adhesive layer have significant effects on the mode shapes and the natural frequencies.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 168781401771181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyu Fan ◽  
Jin Huang ◽  
Junbo Ding ◽  
Jie Zhang

This article presents the free vibration of piezoelectric functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite conical panels with elastically restrained boundary conditions. The material properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced composites are assumed to be temperature-dependent and are obtained using the extended rule of mixture. First-order shear deformation theory is adopted to obtain the kinematics of the hybrid panels, and the boundary spring technique is used to implement arbitrary boundary conditions. Meanwhile, two types of electrical boundary conditions, closed circuit and open circuit, are considered for the free surfaces of the piezoelectric layers. The complete sets of electro-mechanically coupled governing equations are obtained using the Rayleigh–Ritz procedure with the Chebyshev polynomial basis functions. The resultant eigenvalue problem is solved to obtain natural frequencies and mode shapes of the hybrid panels. Convergence and comparison studies have been conducted to verify the stability and accuracy of the proposed method. Several numerical examples are examined to reveal the influences of the carbon nanotube volume fractions, carbon nanotube distribution types, boundary conditions, geometrical parameters, and temperatures on the natural frequencies of the hybrid panel. Moreover, the mode shapes of the hybrid panels under various boundary conditions are also presented.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongyan Shi ◽  
Yunke Zhao ◽  
Qingshan Wang ◽  
Xiaoyan Teng ◽  
Fuzhen Pang

This paper presents free vibration analysis of open and closed shells with arbitrary boundary conditions using a spectro-geometric-Ritz method. In this method, regardless of the boundary conditions, each of the displacement components of open and closed shells is represented simultaneously as a standard Fourier cosine series and several auxiliary functions. The auxiliary functions are introduced to accelerate the convergence of the series expansion and eliminate all the relevant discontinuities with the displacement and its derivatives at the boundaries. The boundary conditions are modeled using the spring stiffness technique. All the expansion coefficients are treated equally and independently as the generalized coordinates and determined using Rayleigh-Ritz method. By using this method, a unified vibration analysis model for the open and closed shells with arbitrary boundary conditions can be established without the need of changing either the equations of motion or the expression of the displacement components. The reliability and accuracy of the proposed method are validated with the FEM results and those from the literature.


2021 ◽  
pp. 109963622110204
Author(s):  
Xue-Yang Miao ◽  
Chao-Feng Li ◽  
Yu-Lin Jiang ◽  
Zi-Xuan Zhang

In this paper, a unified method is developed to analyze free vibrations of the three-layer functionally graded cylindrical shell with non-uniform thickness. The middle layer is composed of two-dimensional functionally gradient materials (2D-FGMs), whose thickness is set as a function of smooth continuity. Four sets of artificial springs are assigned at the ends of the shells to satisfy the arbitrary boundary conditions. The Sanders’ shell theory is used to obtain the strain and curvature-displacement relations. Furthermore, the Chebyshev polynomials are selected as the admissible function to improve computational efficiency, and the equation of motion is derived by the Rayleigh–Ritz method. The effects of spring stiffness, volume fraction indexes, configuration on of shell, and the change in thickness of the middle layer on the modal characteristics of the new structural shell are also analyzed.


Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
O. Gu¨vendik ◽  
V. O¨zerciyes

In this present study, the “Free Bending Vibrations of a Centrally Bonded Symmetric Double Lap Joint (or Symmetric Double Doubler Joint) with a Gap in Mindlin Plates or Panels” are theoretically analyzed and are numerically solved in some detail. The “plate adherends” and the upper and lower “doubler plates” of the “Bonded Joint” system are considered as dissimilar, orthotropic “Mindlin Plates” joined through the dissimilar upper and lower very thin adhesive layers. There is a symmetrically and centrally located “Gap” between the “plate adherends” of the joint system. In the “adherends” and the “doublers” of the “Bonded Joint” assembly, the transverse shear deformations and the transverse and rotary moments of inertia are included in the analysis. The relatively very thin adhesive layers are assumed to be linearly elastic continua with transverse normal and shear stresses. The “damping effects” in the entire “Bonded Joint” system are neglected. The sets of the dynamic “Mindlin Plate” equations of the “plate adherends”, the “double doubler plates” and the thin adhesive layers are combined together with the orthotropic stress resultant-displacement expressions in a “special form”. This system of equations, after some further manipulations, is eventually reduced to a set of the “Governing System of the First Order Ordinary Differential Equations” in terms of the “state vectors” of the problem. Hence, the final set of the aforementioned “Governing Systems of Equations” together with the “Continuity Conditions” and the “Boundary conditions” facilitate the present solution procedure. This is the “Modified Transfer Matrix Method (MTMM) (with Interpolation Polynomials). The present theoretical formulation and the method of solution are applied to a typical “Bonded Symmetric Double Lap Joint (or Symmetric Double Doubler Joint) with a Gap”. The effects of the relatively stiff (or “hard”) and the relatively flexible (or “soft”) adhesive properties, on the natural frequencies and mode shapes are considered in detail. The very interesting mode shapes with their dimensionless natural frequencies are presented for various sets of boundary conditions. Also, several parametric studies of the dimensionless natural frequencies of the entire system are graphically presented. From the numerical results obtained, some important conclusions are drawn for the “Bonded Joint System” studied here.


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