Research Article

Analysis of the Spatial Vibration of Nonprismatic Arches by Means of Recurrence Relations for the Coefficients of the Chebyshev Series Expansion of the Solution

Table 1

Comparison of nondimensional natural frequencies for C-C arch.

ā€‰T cross sectionL cross section
this paperFEMthis paperFEM

12.842212.835714.407614.3977
21.780821.541820.453820.2170
35.45635.394038.560338.4733
43.073542.878241.072140.9014
71.984571.648869.510769.2230
73.463573.245677.299077.1129
106.763105.734105.528104.525
125.614124.971125.176124.907
149.329148.075155.660153.881
181.214188.195171.785174.332