Free Axial Vibrations of Non-Uniform Rods

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Free axial vibrations of non-uniform rods are investigated by a proposed method, which results in a series solution. In a special case, with the proposed method an exact solution with a concise form can be obtained, which imply four types of profiles with variation in geometry or material properties. However, the WKB (Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin) method leads to a series solution, which is a Taylor expansion of the results of the pro-posed method. For the arbitrary non-uniform rods, the comparison indicates that the WKB method is simpler, but the convergent speed of the series solution resulting from the proposed method is faster than that of the WKB method, which is also validated numerically using an exact solution of a kind of non-uniform rods with Kummer functions.

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