A Simple Finite Element Procedure for Free Vibration and Buckling Analysis of Cracked Beam-Like Structures

Subject Areas : Engineering

M.R Shirazizadeh ¹ , H Shahverdi ² , A Imam ³

1 - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Aerospace Engineering and Center of Excellence in Computational Aerospace, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
3 - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2015-11-02 Accepted : 2016-01-04 Published : 2016-03-30

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