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Optimum design of vibrating cantilevers is a classical problem widely used in the literature and textbooks in structural optimization. The problem, originally formulated and solved by Karihalloo and Niordson (Ref. 5), was to find the optimal beam shape that will maximize the fundamental vibration frequency of a cantilever. Upon reexamination of the problem, it has been found that the original analysis and solution procedure can be simplified and improved substantially. Specifically, the time-consuming inner loop devised for solving the Lagrange multiplier in the original work has been proved to be tolally unnecessary and thus should not be considered in the problem solution. This conclusion has led to a new set of simplified equations for the construction of iteration schemes. New asymptotic expressions for the optimum design solution have been obtained and verified by numerical results. Numerical analysis has shown a significant improvement in convergence rate by the proposed new procedure. Also some obvious numerical errors in the original paper have been identified and corrected.
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This work was suppoted in part by the University of Arizona Foundation and the Office of the Vice President for Research. The author is grateful to the reviewers for their valuable comments.
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Wang, F.Y. Optimum design of vibrating cantilevers: A classical probem revisited. J Optim Theory Appl 84, 635–652 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02191989
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02191989