Research Article

An Improved Analytical Method for Vibration Analysis of Variable Section Beam

Table 1

Comparison of results from ADTM and ADM in the uniform beam case.

FrequencyOrder of iterationADMADTMFEM resultTheoretical result
(p = 2)(p = 3)

ω1n = 179.034178.274778.117877.709678.0726
n = 278.074378.072778.0726
n = 378.072678.072678.0726

Ω2n = 1417.6492454.8542492.8109487.1444489.2727
n = 2456.9292488.6935489.2750
n = 3488.3615489.2715489.2727

Ω3n = 11290.26211309.28911362.85361369.9775
n = 21350.18891365.6756
n = 31095.90321369.64951369.9640