VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF

RECTANGULAR PLATE WITH

CIRCULAR HOLES

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
NUMERICAL FORMULATION
MATERIAL GEOMETRY AND PROPERTIES
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
VARIATION OF FREQUENCIES WITH RESPECT

TO DIAMETER OF THE HOLE

VARIATION OF FREQUENCIES WITH RESPECT
TO LOCATION OF THE HOLE
VARIATION OF FREQUENCIES WITH RESPECT
TO THICKNESS OF THE PLATE
CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
This presentation concentrates on improving dynamic

performance rectangular plates with holes.

Cut-outs/holes are also a requirement in these structures

primarily for the purpose of making the structure lighter,

for venting and inspection, for providing a passage for
service facilities like cables, fuel pipes etc.
for fastening/mounting other structural members and

instruments using bolts and rivets.

When we introduce the holes for any of above mentioned

purposes, it shifts the natural frequency of the plate .

So this presentation concentrates on reducing natural

frequencies of plates thereby increasing dynamic

performance of plate with circular cut-out.
In order to do so three parameters are considered namely

diameter of the hole, location of the hole and thickness of

the plate.

Let us see by varying these parameters how dynamic

performance of a plate is affected.

MATERIAL GEOMERTY AND PROPERTIES

Plate used has dimension of 400mm*300mm*30mm

Rectangular plate used in analysis

Material properties of mild steel

Density=7850 (kg/mm3)
Youngs modulus=210 (GPa)
Poissions ratio=0.3

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

Modeled a plate without holes using ABAQUS,

keeping thickness of plate and location hole constant.

Noted down the frequencies and mode shapes.

Mode 1

Mode 3

Mode 2

Mode 4

Mode 5

Mode 7

Mode 6

Mode 8

Table : Eigen values and frequencies of plate without hole

Mode No

Frequency (Hz)

Eigen values

1.20705E+03

57.519E+06

2.45415E+03

237.773E+06

3.43458E+03

465.701E+06

4.45375E+03

783.089E+06

4.51752E+03

805.674E+06

6.31153E+03

1.57264E+09

6.80995E+03

1.83083E+09

7.05063E+03

1.96253E+09

1. VARIATION OF FREQUENCIES WITH

RESPECT TO DIAMETER OF THE HOLE
Results are drawn for plate with 100mm diameter
hole.
Results are noted down.

Mode 1

Mode 3

Mode 2

Mode 4

Mode 5

Mode 7

Mode 6

Mode 8

Table : Frequencies of a plate with different hole diameters.

Mode

Plate without

Plate with

Plate with

Plate with

No.

hole (Hz)

100mm cetral

150mm cetral

200mm cetral

1.20705E+03

hole (Hz)
1.17783E+03

hole (Hz)
1.24889E+03

hole (Hz)
1.43708E+03

2.45415E+03

2.28528E+03

2.08187E+03

1.97709E+03

3.43458E+03

3.10432E+03

2.85167E+03

2.8949E+03

4.45375E+03

4.36035E+03

4.13042E+03

3.85905E+03

4.51752E+03

4.55505E+03

4.67169E+03

4.78682E+03

6.31153E+03

6.01709E+03

6.02088E+03

6.14876E+03

6.80995E+03

6.44625E+03

6.80659E+03

6.64144E+03

7.05063E+03

6.99265E+03

7.43799E+03

8.25988E+03

Natural frequencies of plate for central holes

9000
8000
7000
6000

without hole
100mm hole at center
150mm hole at center
200mm hole at center

5000

Frequency (Hz)

4000
3000
2000
1000
0
Mode No.

Mode No.

2. VARIATION OF FREQUENCIES WITH

RESPECT TO LOCATION OF THE HOLE
Eccentric hole locations, 50mm distance from either
side of edge.

Fig : Eccentric hole locations

Table : Natural frequencies of plate for eccentric holes

Mode No

Plate without
hole (Hz)

Plate with

Plate with

Plate with

100mm

150mm

200mm

eccentric hole

eccentric hole

eccentric hole

(Hz)

(Hz)

(Hz)

1.20705E+03

1.17E+03

1.17869E+03

1.29526E+03

2.45415E+03

2.44E+03

2.50538E+03

2.59201E+03

3.43458E+03

3.35E+03

3.18571E+03

2.91581E+03

4.45375E+03

4.23E+03

3.92978E+03

4.00517E+03

4.51752E+03

4.61E+03

4.25564E+03

4.49044E+03

6.31153E+03

5.96E+03

5.78397E+03

5.8192E+03

6.80995E+03

6.34E+03

6.26097E+03

6.17656E+03

7.05063E+03

6.69E+03

7.2025E+03

7.13771E+03

Natural frequencies of plate for eccentric holes

8.00E+03
7.00E+03
6.00E+03
5.00E+03
Plate with no hole

Frequencies (Hz)

4.00E+03

Plate with 100mm eccentric hole

Plate with 150mm eccentric hole

3.00E+03

Plate with 200mm eccentric hole

2.00E+03
1.00E+03
0.00E+00
1

Mode No.

3. VARIATION OF FREQUENCIES WITH RESPECT TO THICKNESS OF PLATE

keeping the hole diameter and location constant,

thickness of the plate is varied to study dynamic

performance of the plate.
Rectangular plates are modeled for half of plate

thickness and twice of plate thickness.

Variations of frequencies with respect to plate

thickness are noted down and graph is drawn.

Table : Frequencies (Hz) for different plate thickness

Mode

plate of 15mm

plate of 30mm thickness

plate of 60mm thickness

No
1

thickness
612.041

1.18E+03

2.14E+03

1.22E+03

2.29E+03

3.87E+03

1.68E+03

3.10E+03

5.11E+03

2.37E+03

4.36E+03

7.05E+03

2.47E+03

4.56E+03

7.40E+03

3.37E+03

6.02E+03

9.26E+03

3.63E+03

6.45E+03

9.51E+03

3.90E+03

6.99E+03

9.82E+03

Frequencies variation with respect to thickness

12000

Mode 1
Mode 2
Mode 3
Mode 4
Mode 5
Mode 6
Mode 7
Mode 8

10000
8000

Frequencies (Hz)

6000
4000
2000
0
10

20

30

40

Thickness (mm)

50

60

70

CONCLUSION

Variation of frequencies with respect to

diameter of the hole : From table 3 we can observe

that frequency of a plate can be reduced by introducing
holes. For the hole of 100mm diameter its found that
frequency of the plate has been reduced hence reduces
vibration thereby increasing dynamic performance of
plates.

From eccentric hole situation: its been observed from

graph that higher mode frequencies are less affected

with the eccentric holes. Lower modes frequencies are
reduces with introduction of 100mm and 150mm dia
holes, where as vibrations are increased for 200mm
hole diameter.

Variation of frequencies with respect to thickness

of plate: its been observed that frequencies of all

modes of plate is increased with the increase in the
thickness of the plate.
dynamic responses and a detailed analysis can only

ascertain the correct combination of the parameters

for achieving a desired dynamic performance of such
rectangular plate.

END