OS-V: 0450 Free Cylinder: Axisymmetric Vibration
Test No. FV41 A free cylinder with axisymmetric vibration. OptiStruct is used to investigate the rigid body mode, close eigenvalues, and the coupling between axial, radial and circumferential behavior.

Model Files
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to your working directory.
Benchmark Model
The 1st order and 2nd order triangular axisymmetric elements (CTAXI) are used to model the cylinder. The cylinder is unsupported.
The material properties are:
- Property
- Value
- Young's Modulus
- 200 x 109 N/m2
- Poisson's Ratio
- 0.3
- Density
- 8000 kg/m3
Modal Analysis Results
Mode shapes predicted by OptiStruct.Figure 2.


The frequency of each targeted mode is normalized with the NAFEMS closed form
solution.
Mode | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
NAFEMS | RBM | 243.53 Hz | 377.41 Hz | 394.11 Hz | 397.72 Hz | 405.28 Hz |
HOE (8×1) | RBM | 243.34 Hz | 372.14 Hz | 374.18 Hz | 378.22 Hz | 396.00 Hz |
Normalized | 1 | 1.000780801 | 1.014161337 | 1.053263135 | 1.051557295 | 1.023434343 |
HOE (16×3) | RBM | 243.46 Hz | 377.15 Hz | 393.2 Hz | 394.6 Hz | 400.97 Hz |
Normalized | 1 | 1.000287522 | 1.000689381 | 1.002314344 | 1.007906741 | 1.010748934 |
LOE (8×1) | RBM | 242.45 Hz | 376.02 Hz | 379.86 Hz | 389.83 Hz | 426.92 Hz |
Normalized | 1 | 1.004454527 | 1.003696612 | 1.037513821 | 1.020239592 | 0.949311346 |
LOE (16×3) | RBM | 243.28 Hz | 377.69 Hz | 391.42 Hz | 395.54 Hz | 423.00 Hz |
Normalized | 1 | 1.001027622 | 0.999258651 | 1.006872413 | 1.005511453 | 0.958108747 |
Reference
NAFEMS R0015 - Selected benchmarks for natural frequency analysis