{ "title": "Natural frequencies of a free beam: rigid-body modes and the first bending mode", "kind": "theory", "source": "Euler–Bernoulli free–free beam, β₁L = 4.7300; Timoshenko, Young and Weaver, Vibration Problems in Engineering, 4th ed., Wiley 1974, §5.3", "quantities": [ { "id": "rigid_6", "quantity": "sixth frequency (the last rigid-body mode)", "measure": { "from": "modes", "pointer": "/modes/5/frequency" }, "value": 0.0, "tolerance": { "absolute": 8.1264203095911e-05 }, "reason": "a free body has six zero frequencies; numerical rigid-body frequencies below 10⁻³ of the first elastic one (eigenvalues below 10⁻⁶ of it) are rounding of the shifted solve" }, { "id": "f7", "quantity": "first free–free bending frequency (mode 7)", "measure": { "from": "modes", "pointer": "/modes/6/frequency" }, "value": 0.08126420309591101, "tolerance": { "relative": 0.015 }, "reason": "Euler–Bernoulli neglects shear and rotary inertia, about 0.8% at L/h = 20 for the free–free mode" }, { "id": "mass", "quantity": "total mass", "measure": { "from": "modes", "pointer": "/total_mass" }, "value": 20.0, "tolerance": { "relative": 1e-12 }, "reason": "the mass matrix integrates the density exactly" } ] }