SUMMARYIn this paper, the spurious eigenequations for annular plate eigenproblems by using BIEM and BEM are studied in the continuous and discrete systems. Since any two boundary integral equations in the plate formulation (4 equations) can be chosen, 6 (C 4 2 ) options can be considered instead of only two approaches (single-layer and double-layer methods, or singular and hypersingular equations) which are adopted for the eigenproblems of the membrane and acoustic problems. The occurring mechanism of the spurious eigenequation for annular plates in the complex-valued formulations is studied analytically. For the continuous system, degenerate kernels for the fundamental solution and the Fourier series expansion for the circular boundary density are employed to derive the true and spurious eigenequations analytically. For the discrete system, the degenerate kernels for the fundamental solution and circulants resulting from the circular boundary are employed to determine the true and spurious eigenequations. True eigenequation depends on the specified boundary condition while spurious eigenequation is embedded in each formulation. It is found that the spurious eigenvalue for the annular plate is the true eigenvalue of the associated interior problem with an inner radius of the annular domain. Also, we provide three methods (SVD updating technique, Burton and Miller method and CHIEF method) to suppress the occurrence of the spurious eigenvalues. Several examples were demonstrated to check the validity of the formulations.

In this paper, an imaginary-part BEM for solving the eigenfrequencies of plates is proposed for avoiding singularity and saving half effort in computation instead of using the complex-valued BEM. By employing the imaginary-part fundamental solution, the spurious eigenequations in conjunction with the true eigenequation are obtained for free vibration of plate. To verify this finding, the circulant is adopted to analytically derive the true and spurious eigenequations in the discrete system of a circular plate. In order to obtain the eigenvalues and boundary modes at the same time, the singular value decomposition (SVD) technique is utilized. The analytical solutions are derived in the discrete system. Three cases, clamped, simply-supported and free circular plates, are demonstrated analytically and numerically to see the validity of the present method. SVD updating technique is adopted to suppress the ocurrence of the spurious eigenvalues, and a clamped plate is demonstrated analytically for the discrete system in this paper.

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