Research Article

Free Vibration Analysis of Arbitrary-Shaped Plates Based on the Improved Rayleigh–Ritz Method

Table 11

Natural frequencies of the elliptical thin plate under the clamped boundary condition (Hz).

ModeClamped
PresentFEMError (%)

134.12334.1530.08
249.20049.2920.18
369.72169.8930.24
487.09087.3590.30
595.89596.2280.34
6109.697110.090.35
7127.815128.470.51
8136.944137.50.40
9164.982166.370.83
10165.533166.640.66