Natural vibrations of complex bodies

The paper sets forth a modified preconditioned conjugate-gradient method with shifted aggregated multilevel preconditioning (MPCG_AMIS). The method is intended to solve large-scale natural-vibration problems. Such problems are typical for the finite-element analysis of buildings and other complex structures and bodies. Using a proper shift in preconditioning improves considerably the spectral properties of the preconditioner and, hence, improves convergence. Using the MPCG_AMTS allows us to avoid lock of convergence, which is the case in the conventional PCG method. The performance of the method is illustrated by examples.