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Compute the effective modal mass m1^eff for the first mode

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The modal mass, associated with mode m, is calculated as mm=aTmMam(10) where am is the normalised mode shape vector, aTm is its transpose (row vector) and M is the system's mass matrix. The modal stiffness is calculated as km=ω2mmm(11) where ωm is the angular frequency of the mode
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