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	%0 Journal Article
	%A Mojtaba Aghamiri Esfahani and  Mohammad Karkon and  Seyed Majid Hosseini Nezhad and  Reza Hosseini-Ara 
	%D 2016
	%J International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 111, 2016
	%T Formulating the Stochastic Finite Elements for Free Vibration Analysis of Plates with Variable Elastic Modulus
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004213
	%V 111
	%X In this study, the effect of uncertainty in elastic modulus of a plate on free vibration response is investigated. For this purpose, the elastic modulus of the plate is modeled as stochastic variable with normal distribution. Moreover, the distance autocorrelation function is used for stochastic field. Then, by applying the finite element method and Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic finite element relations are extracted. Finally, with a numerical test, the effect of uncertainty in the elastic modulus on free vibration response of a plate is studied. The results show that the effect of uncertainty in elastic modulus of the plate cannot play an important role on the free vibration response.

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