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The comments by Mohsen Sadeghi is in order, except I would like add a few more comments on computation of Eigenvectors.

Since the said determinant is zero, the NxN Homogeneous Algebraic Equations (HAE) have a non-trivial solution for each of the N-Eigen values (which are the square of the 'N' natural frequencies). The computation of the unique Eigenvector (i.e. all the N-values of the EV) of the HAE is not possible since we have forced the coefficient matrix to be singular! I.e. we cannot expect N-elements of each of the Eigenvectors to be computed uniquely. Hence we solve for (N-1)-values of the elements of the EV in terms of one of the arbitrarily-chosen elements of the EV. This implies that we can calculate only the (N-1) ratios of the EV elements WRT to an arbitrarilychosen reference element. This process of calculating the (N-1) ratios of EV WRT an arbitrarilychosen reference element value may be termed as Normalization. There are many ways to carry out this normalisation: 1) Make maximum displacement equal to 1.0; or 2) Make RMS-value of the displacement vector equal to 1.0; or 3) Make Generalized Stiffness associated with each of the Eigenvectors equal to 1.0; or 4) Make Generalized Mass associated with each of the eigenvector equal to 1.0. MSC/NASTAN follows the last approach as default, and reports the corresponding generalised stiffness values associated with the corresponding EV.

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