Fixed-hinged beam finite elements used for dynamic analysis of frames (Q5961523)

The author studies the dynamics of linearly elastic frames by the finite element method using fixed-hinged Timoshenko type beam elements and neglecting the rotatory mass inertia. By means of a numerically worked out example, the relevance of the shear deformation to the higher eigenfrequences \((>3)\) is demonstrated; the rotatory effects, however, can be neglected as usual.