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Free Vibration of Annular Circular Plates Based on Higher-Order Shear Deformation Theory: A Spline Approximation Technique

Table 1

Comparison of natural frequency parameter (rad/s) of the present study with Hashemi et al. [53], Duan et al. [54], and Liu et al. [55] of simply supported annular circular plates .

Circumferential node number
ModesPresentHashemi et al. [53] exact sol.Duan et al. [54] FSDTLiu et al. [55] FEM

1115831584.6515831551
254365437.6154335328
31149411495.11147811283
2123072308.1123062260
264746475.1364686348
31265212653.21263212428