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Example 9, Slide 23: Two views of the seventh vibration mode from the STAGS model.

Fig. 25g Two views of the seventh vibration mode from the STAGS model. The modal vibration frequency predicted by STAGS is 16.25 Hz. This mode is a combination of shell deformation with m = 2 axial half-waves and mostly pitching motion of the propellant tank approximately as a rigid body with significant tension and compression in the supporting struts. The GENOPT/BIGBOSOR4 model predicts mostly pitching tank motion with a modal vibration frequency equal to 15.284 Hz, as displayed in Fig. 16a(D). Shell deformation modes with m greater than one-half axial wave were not computed for the GENOPT/BIGBOSOR4 model.

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