Mass lumping schemes fitted to MLS-based numerical manifold method in vibration of plates with cutouts using CPT and FSDT

[Display omitted] •A unified derivation of mass lumping methods for plate using CPT and FSDT in MLS-based numerical manifold method.•A comprehensive comparative study of the Row-sum method, Diagonally scaling method and Manifold-based method for vibration analysis of plates using CPT and FSDT.•Extension of Manifold-based mass lumping method in transverse vibration of the plate using both CPT and FSDT.•Manifold-based method can guarantee a positive-definite lumped mass matrix with rigorous mathematical derivations while achieving comparable performance. It is critical to accurately extract the natural frequencies in the transverse vibration of plates using the classical plate theory (CPT) and the first-order shear deformation plate theory (FSDT). The moving least squares (MLS) based numerical manifold method (MLS-based NMM) in conjunction with a suitable diagonally lumped mass matrix is a reasonable choice because it can naturally treat plates with cutouts and easily formulate an H2 regular approximation based on MLS interpolation, as well as mitigate shear locking issues for vibration analysis of thin plates based on FSDT. Moreover, the mass lumping techniques involving the row-sum method, the diagonal scaling method, and the mathematically rigorous manifold-based method are extended and derived in the unified framework of MLS-based NMM for transverse vibration analysis of plates. Furthermore, the positive-definiteness of the lumped mass matrix (LMM) generated by the manifold-based mass method is explained in MLS settings, and the row-sum method is proven to be a special case of the manifold-based method. A comprehensive comparative study of different LMMs is performed in accordance with the consistent mass matrix (CMM) on extensive numerical benchmarks. Numerical results demonstrate the convergence properties of LMMs compared with CMM in MLS-based NMM for plate vibration based on CPT and FSDT. It can be observed that LMMs yield comparable performance compared with CMM. The row-sum method obtains accurate results in most cases but can not guarantee the positivity. In contrast, the manifold method can guarantee the positive-definiteness of LMM and is more accurate than the diagonal scaling method in most cases.