Research Article

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

Table 9

Dimensionless free vibration frequencies of the laminated shell (Figure 21(a)).

ModesPresent resultsANSYS results Relative errors

18.103528.017451.1%
28.103528.017451.1%
310.012949.860911.5%
413.7096913.494731.6%
515.1744114.931911.6%