Free Vibrations of Framed Structures with Inclined Members

Abstract

The structures always vibrate under dynamic loadings under certain frequencies. These frequencies may resonate with natural frequencies. Hence it is important to determine the natural frequencies. Finite Element Method is a versatile numerical tool which is used for the vibration analysis of frames which are subjected to dynamic load, which is comprised of time varying loads. The Project titled “Free Vibrations of Framed Structures with Inclined Members”, aims in finding free un-damped natural frequencies of vibrations of frames with inclined members. FEM is used to solve the problems by developing codes in MATLAB in which the Stiffness and Mass matrices of structure are constructed in MATLAB. The natural frequencies are then computed.