Free vibration analysis of dragonfly wings using finite element method
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In the present work, investigations on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the dragonfly wing are carried out and numerical modeling based on Finite Element Method (FEM) is developed to predict Flight characteristics of dragonfly wings. Vibrational behavior of wings type structures is immensely important in analysis, design and manufacturing of similar engineering structures. For this purpose natural frequencies and mode shapes are calculated. In addition, the kind of deformation in each mode shape evaluated and the ratio between numerical natural frequency and experimental natural frequency presented as damping ratio. The results obtain from present method are in good agreement with same experimental methods.
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