M. S. Choi/D. J. Jang/Y. B. Kim/J. S. Jang/D. H. Moon
The Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, vol. 23, no. 12, pp.3323-3331, 2009

Abstract : A new transient analysis method for a rectangular plate structure comprised of a large number of plate elements was developed in order to significantly reduce computational time and memory. This algorithm was derived from the combination of the transfer technique of the transfer mass coefficient method, the modeling technique of the finite element method, and the numerical integration technique of Newmark’s method. In this paper, the algorithm for the transient analysis of a rectangular plate structure is formulated by the proposed method. In order to verify the computational accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method, the results obtained by the proposed method were compared with those obtained by the finite element method and the finite element-transfer matrix method. The proposed method, the finite element-transfer mass coefficient method, could considerably reduce the computation time without the loss of accuracy, in spite of using small computation memory, by using the transfer rules successively.

Keyword : Computation time; Finite element method; Newmark’s method; Rectangular plate; Transfer mass coefficient method; Transfer matrix method; Transient response