Research Article

Flexural Free Vibrations of Multistep Nonuniform Beams

Table 5

Calculation results of natural frequencies of two-step simply supported beam.

MethodsPresent (rad/s)1D-FEM (rad/s)2D-FEM (rad/s)Relative error (%)
1D-FEM2D-FEM

1st5.76665.77125.75700.0805−0.1656
2nd25.155125.176125.11570.0838−0.1566
3rd57.150457.211456.95010.1068−0.3490