Research Article

Flexural Free Vibrations of Multistep Nonuniform Beams

Table 6

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

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

1st5.21105.21325.20890.0414−0.0402
2nd21.602221.598921.5683−0.0155−0.1571
3rd50.256150.303250.17380.0938−0.1638