Research Article

Free Vibration Analysis of Symmetrically Laminated Folded Plate Structures Using an Element-Free Galerkin Method

Table 4

Dimensionless free vibration frequencies of the cantilevered onefold laminated plate with the lamination scheme (−45°/45°/−45°/45°/−45°…)10.

Crank angleModesPresent resultsANSYS resultsRelative errors

= 90°15.190915.165860.48%
26.379986.357660.35%
315.523215.424130.64%
418.058817.931530.71%
520.373320.277570.47%

= 150°15.230495.163361.30%
26.309416.279210.48%
315.659415.42581.51%
417.639817.508670.75%
520.285620.152110.66%