Research Article

Vibration Analysis of Thin Plate Structures Subjected to a Moving Force Using Frequency-Domain Spectral Element Method

Figure 14

Comparison of the vibration responses obtained by the ANSYS [39] and SEM at the center of the S-S-S-S square plate (Example 1) subjected to a moving point force whose trajectory is given by (a) Case 2 of (39), where  = 5 m/s, and (b) Case 3 of (39), where  = 5 m/s.
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