Research Article

Periodic Properties of 1D FE Discrete Models in High Frequency Dynamics

Figure 16

A frequency spectrum of an isotropic rod of free ends for approximation polynomials of the fifth degree—a numerical model of 1502 DOFs according to the two-mode Mindlin-Herrmann theory of rods [36], based on Chebyshev node distribution used for calculations by the TD-FEM (km/s, m).