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efficient method to solve damped free vibrations

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thornybird80

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Jun 26, 2003
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Hi,

For one of my projects, I am thinking to use dynamic stiffness method or transfer matrix method to tackle damped free vibrations of a structre system. This is essentially to compute complex eigenvalues and their corresponding complex mode shapes. The resulting characteristic equation would be a transcendental function of the complex eigenvalue. Does anyone here have the experience of solve a complex transcendental function efficiently and how? Thanks so much.
 
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