Free Vibration Analysis of a Nonlinear Beam Using Homotopy and Modified Lindstedt-Poincare Methods

Subject Areas : Engineering

M.T Ahmadian ¹ , M Mojahedi ² , H Moeenfard ³

1 - Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics and Automation, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
2 - School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
3 - School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Received: 2009-03-20 Accepted : 2009-04-24 Published : 2009-04-30

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