Research Article

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

Table 5

Dimensionless free vibration frequencies of the cantilevered twofold laminated plate with the lamination scheme (0°/90°/90°/0°).

Crank angleModesPresent resultsANSYS resultsRelative errors

= 90°15.150515.149120.03%
25.279455.277650.03%
39.425419.408890.18%
412.408812.376710.26%
514.315614.259220.40%

= 150°15.150635.149120.03%
25.275445.273310.04%
39.419169.400880.19%
412.305312.272550.27%
514.16214.108330.38%