Vibration analysis of flexural-shear plates with varying cross-section (Q1977606)

For the analysis of free vibrations, the author treats the multi-storey buildings with narrow rectangular plane configuration (narrow building) as cantilever flexural-shear plates. The governing differential equations for free vibrations of flexural-shear plates with variably distributed mass and stiffness are derived and reduced to Bessel equations or to Euler equation by selecting suitable expressions, such as power functions and exponential functions, for the distributions of stiffness and mass along the plate height. The author obtains general solutions for flexural-shear plates. Numerical examples demonstrate that the calculated natural frequencies and mode shapes of narrow buildings are in good agreement with experimentally measured data. It is also shown that it is possible to consider a building with rigid floors as a cantilever flexural bar, that is a special case of cantilever flexural-shear plate. Thus the methods proposed in this paper are suitable for the calculation of free vibration of narrow buildings and common shear-wall buildings.