Research Article

Free Transverse Vibration of Circular Plate of Stepped Thickness with General Boundary Conditions by an Improved Fourier–Ritz Method

Table 3

Dimensionless frequency parameters for stepped circular Mindlin plate with simply supported boundary condition .

h1/h2Modal numberPresentFEMXiang and Zhang [10]

0.414.0164.021
29.8759.881
319.08519.090
420.01220.021
532.51732.529

0.814.6924.698
212.27612.282
322.13522.134
427.25627.265
537.63537.647

1.515.6715.6795.68854
214.48314.49014.4923
327.01227.02126.9433
432.68532.69632.6687
541.19841.20841.1944