School of Mechanical and

Aerospace Engineering
Aeroelasticity Assignment 1

Name: Lee Choon Yee

Matri no: U0920745A

The mass matrix and the stiffness matrix are calculated as per shown in the previous page.
The eigenvalue problem can be defined as:

K M 0
2

where the natural frequencies and the shape vectors can be solved. Letting
eigenvalue problem becomes:

, the

K M 0
2

The inverse matrix of M is found and multiplied across the equation.

Therefore,

K M

2 I 0

where I is the identity matrix. The eigenvalue problem is solved using matlab, using the below
function and by varying the size of the matrices (nxn).
n = 9;
%changing the n value; min 4
format short
M = zeros(n);
K = zeros(n);
bf = zeros(n,1);
phi = 0;
for i = 1:n
for j = 1:n
M(i,j) = 1620/(i*j*(i+1)*(i+2)*(j+1)*(j+2))*(i*j/(i+j+5)2*(i+j+i*j)/(i+j+4)+(i+2)*(j+2)/(i+j+3))810/(i*j*(i+1)*(i+2)*(j+1)*(j+2))*(i*j/(i+j+7)2*(i+j+i*j)/(i+j+6)+(i+2)*(j+2)/(i+j+5))+120/(i*j*(i+1)*(i+2)*(j+1)*(j+
2))*((1/3)^(i+j+2)*(2+2*i/3)*(2+2*j/3)+(2/3)^(i+j+2)*(2+i/3)*(2+j/3));
K(i,j) = ((1.8*10^7)/(3^3))*(2/(i+j-1)-6/(i+j)+6/(i+j+1)1/(i+j+2)-2/(i+j+3)+1/(i+j+4));
end
end
[X,Ws] = eig(K,M)
w = sqrt(Ws)
t = 1;
for y= 0:0.01:3
phi=0;
for i=1:n
phi= (X(i,4)*(((y/3)^(i+1))*(2+ii*(y/3))/i/(i+2)/(i+1)))+phi; %%changing X(i,2) for 2nd modeshape,
X(i,3) for 3rd modeshape etc
end
modeshape(t,2)=phi;
modeshape(t,1)=y;

t=t+1;
end

plot(modeshape(:,1), modeshape(:,2));
xlabel('y')
ylabel('displacement')

For n = 4:

=
1.0e+003 *
0.1038

0 0.5350

0 1.4461

= 103.8rads-1,

0 3.3452
=535rads-1,

=1446.1rad-1,

In Summary: when n = 4,

n=4

103.82

535

1446.1

3345.2

= 3345.2rad-1

When n = 5:
w=
0.1038

0 0.5346

0 1.3469

0 3.3450

=103.8rads-1,

n=4
n=5

0 5.6457
=534.6rads-1,

103.82
103.82

535
534.62

=1346.9rads-1,

1446.1
1346.9

=3345rads-1

3345.2
3345

When n = 6
w=
1.0e+003 *
0.1038

0 0.5346

0 1.3440

0 2.9893

0 5.6453

=103.8rads-1,

0 9.0868

=534.6rads-1,

=1344rads-1,

Comparing the first 4 natural frequencies

n=4
n=5
n=6

103.82
103.82
103.82

535
534.62
534.62

1446.1
1346.9
1344

3345.2
3345
2898.3

First 2 natural frequencies have converged.

= 2898.3rads-1

When n = 7
w=
1.0e+004 *
0.0104

0 0.0535

0 0.1340

0 0.2979

0 0.4770

0 0.9087

=104rads-1,

=535rads-1,

0 1.4747
=1340rads-1,

Comparing the first 4 natural frequencies

n=4
n=5
n=6
n=7

103.82
103.82
103.82
104

535
534.62
534.62
535

1446.1
1346.9
1344
1340

3345.2
3345
2898.3
2979

= 2979rads-1

When n =8
w=
1.0e+004 *
0.0104

0 0.0535

0 0.1340

0 0.2957

0 0.4743

0 0.6934

0 1.4746

=104rads-1,

=535rads-1,

0 2.0794

=1340rads-1,

= 2957rads-1

Comparing the first 4 natural frequencies

n=4
n=5
n=6
n=7
n=8

103.82
103.82
103.82
104
105

535
534.62
534.62
535
535

1446.1
1346.9
1344
1340
1340

3345.2
3345
2898.3
2979
2957

When n=8, the first 3 natural frequencies have converged

n=9
w=
1.0e+004 *
0.0104

0 0.0535

0 0.1340

0 0.2955

0 0.4696

0 0.6890

0 1.0900

0 2.0787

=104rads-1,

=535rads-1,

0 2.9946

=1340rads-1,

= 2955rads-1

Comparing the first 4 natural frequencies

n=4
n=5
n=6
n=7
n=8
n=9

103.82
103.82
103.82
104
105
105

535
534.62
534.62
535
535
535

1446.1
1346.9
1344
1340
1340
1340

3345.2
3345
2898.3
2979
2957
2955

When n=9, the first 4 natural frequencies have converged

Corresponding to n =9, the shape eigenvectors are shown below

X=
166.7964e-003 887.8240e-003 -2.0985e+000

4.8466e+000 -9.1489e+000 -7.7463e+000

8.2048e+000 -112.4890e+000 171.0162e+000

64.7637e-003 -3.0037e+000 10.6554e+000 -54.4697e+000 197.9229e+000 -271.1834e+000

490.8916e-003 12.9741e+000 23.3919e+000 257.2357e+000 -2.8688e+003

1.2193e+003

6.3401e+003 -11.7819e+003

9.6197e+003 -44.5790e+003 -92.2521e+003 212.5806e+003

-3.8362e+000 -145.6521e+000 -127.5307e+000 -2.4849e+003 34.4201e+003 -72.5494e+003 473.7071e+003 576.0074e+003 -1.6781e+006

12.2529e+000 458.1984e+000

1.4424e+003

-18.0335e+000 -674.3366e+000 -5.8490e+003

5.1491e+000 398.2505e+000

7.5624e+003 -197.1965e+003 203.6890e+003 -2.2931e+006 -1.8317e+006

4.5322e+003 548.3466e+003 -170.9308e+003

5.8223e+006

6.9491e+006

3.1270e+006 -16.2041e+006

8.8356e+003 -43.7675e+003 -776.4283e+003 -194.4099e+003 -8.0184e+006 -2.7748e+006 21.3799e+006

10.3229e+000 62.7513e+000 -5.4525e+003 55.2366e+003 539.2444e+003 408. 6403e+003

1st natural
frequency

2nd natural
frequency

3rd natural
frequency

4th natural
frequency

Eigenvector

Eigenvector

Eigenvector

Eigenvector

5.6630e+006

1.0827e+006 -14.8735e+006

First modeshape

2nd modeshape

3rd Modeshape

4th Modeshape