• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.779-786
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• 2015

The Kansa method, which is used for various free vibration problems of arbitrarily shaped plates including membranes, discretizes the domain of a plate using only nodes without elements unlike FEM. The method requires a small amount of computation relative to FEM thanks to this discretization scheme but has limit in the accuracy of its solution. This paper reveals the reason of the limit and, to overcome the limit, proposes the practical method of calculating the singularity of a system matrix and extracting accurate natural frequencies. Case studies for a rectangular plate and an arbitrarily shaped plate validate the proposed method.