Out-of-Plane Vibration of Curved Uniform and Tapered Beams with Additional Mass

Table 4

Comparison of out-of-plane nondimensional fundamental natural frequency parameters of symmetrical tapered curved beams under C-C end condition.

Mode
	FEM	Marc	FEM	Marc	FEM	Marc	FEM	Marc	FEM	Marc
1	1.82656	1.71268	1.99231	1.95735	2.16707	2.06221	2.37049	2.23698	2.55085	2.35337
2	5.2687	4.96329	5.62739	5.29291	5.97692	5.94196	6.35269	6.15867	6.70673	6.5816
3	11.0489	10.90525	11.63925	11.25478	12.23346	11.99578	12.85946	12.82765	13.44632	13.31699
4	18.9317	18.73466	19.8881	19.60848	20.90173	20.62211	21.87971	21.42602	22.83602	22.57947