Research Article

Influence of Non-Structural Localized Inertia on Free Vibration Response of Thin-Walled Structures by Variable Kinematic Beam Formulations

Table 7

First natural frequencies (Hz) for the hollow-rectangular box beam with localized inertia at the tip cross-section (Figure 20(a), Case A).

ModeLE modelsMSC
10 L916 L9 FEM-2DFEM-3D

16.20d6.04d6.11d5.98d
218.54d18.23d18.94d17.97d
343.77d39.75d38.66d38.02d
444.07d43.20d69.36d52.90d
595.47d74.18s70.43s69.60s
6100.62s77.59s73.98s73.12s
7103.41s79.15s78.77s74.72s
8109.34s84.75s81.38s80.47s
9118.77s93.54s89.90s89.07s
10119.60s96.37s93.33s90.49s

DOFs558089281500038400

Bending; coupled; differential bending; torsional; shell-like.