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    Modal analysis of a pin-jointed frameworks

    Hi Skeleton Apologies, should have been more clear on the document, my writing is terible! 74GPa is the young's modulas of Aluminum and area was based on a 10mm dia bar. Attached are my MATLAB files. DSM01 set up the problem, truss2d returns a mass and stiffness matrix for a given...
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    Modal analysis of a pin-jointed frameworks

    Thanks for the help skeleton, Could you take a look at my workings as see if I am talking cobblers. If I use direct stiffness method, I can obtain a global stiffness for a framework. This is done by decomposing the frame into sperate trusses. Calulating the stiffness in local co-ordinates...
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    Modal analysis of a pin-jointed frameworks

    Hi I'm trying to find the modal frequencies of a pin-jointed frames, to validate an ansys model. So far I've used direct stiffness method to generate a global stiffness matrix for the framework in Matlab. Is it as simple as mutiplying the stiffness matrix with an inverted mass matrix and...
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