Research Article

Free Vibration Analysis of Symmetrically Laminated Folded Plate Structures Using an Element-Free Galerkin Method

Table 3

Dimensionless free vibration frequencies of the cantilevered onefold laminated plate with the lamination scheme (0°/90°/90°/0°).

Crank angleModesPresent resultsANSYS resultsRelative errors

= 90°14.978364.977520.02%
25.479945.478830.02%
310.992210.977410.13%
414.361414.324970.25%
529.641929.625310.06%

= 150°14.978874.977520.03%
25.475075.474100.02%
311.000210.983260.15%
414.009313.976110.24%
529.649329.636430.04%