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The solution of the finite element eigenvalue problem has become more complicated than before as the size and complexity of the structure is increased. The objective of this paper is to describe and to evaluate the performance of the methods for the solution of the finite element eigenvalue problem. The evaluated criteria is according to the CPU time and memory. In this paper, two parts of the solution of the finite element eigenvalue problem are presented, including the condensation procedure and the direct eigenvalue extraction technique. The condensation procedure used is based on Guyan reduction and the idea of the substructure method is also based on Guyan reduction. The available direct eigenvalue extraction procedure includes the HQL(Householder-QL-inverse) method, generalized Jacobi method,subspace method and Lanczos method. Each metthod is discussed according to the speed of the CPU execution time and the accuracy of the solution. Ls method, which using the Lanczos method as the initial guess base vector in the subspace iteration, has excellent performance according to the computation speed and the accuracy of the solution. In last part of this paper, machine tool modal analysis is used as an example to study the efficiency of the substructure method which is often used in large order eigenvalue problem.
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