Research Article

Free Vibration Analysis of a Rotating Composite Shaft Using the 𝑝 -Version of the Finite Element Method

Table 4

The critical speed (rpm) of the graphite-epoxy composite shaft for various lengths to mean diameter ratio.

Theory or method
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Sanders shell 112400 41680 16450 8585 5183 3441 2440 1816
Bert and Kim [22] Bernoulli-Euler 329600 76820 20210 9072 5121 3283 2282 1677
Bresse-Timoshenko 176300 54830 17880 8543 4945 3209 2246 1658

M.-Y. Chang et al. [6] Continuum-based Timoshenko 181996 55706 17929 8527 4925 3192 2233 1648
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