Research Article

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

Table 6

Dimensionless free vibration frequencies of the cantilevered twofold laminated plate with the lamination scheme (−45°/45°/−45°/45°/−45°…)10.

Crank angleModesPresent resultsANSYS resultsRelative errors

= 90°15.558645.530360.51%
26.011295.983050.47%
313.361313.27640.64%
416.897416.7550.85%
518.184718.028590.87%

= 150°15.558855.512330.84%
25.99715.943990.89%
313.418613.211971.56%
416.801416.590411.27%
517.962517.784891.00%