I use COMSOL to find the first longitudinal mode of a stainless steel PMC,  it is about 16 kHz. I'll find an analytical solution and compare them to make sure that the FEA result gives us a reasonable answer or not.

The FEA result in psl:1088 does not show the right body mode of the PMC. The frequency of 440 Hz is from some weird mode as seen from the figure in the entry. Evan checked the body mode of a simplified steel PMC, and I also check independently. Our results agree quite well that the first longitudinal mode is at ~16kHz.

However, this does not answer what we measured in PSL:1097, where the longitudinal motion is around 300Hz. I checked the body frequency of the base blocked and it is even higher than the PMC body modes' frequencies (this should be expected since the base is even bulkier).

Note: I just learned from Zach that the PMC in GYRO setup does not have 3-point support. It just sits on the base block. But this has not given me any clues about the possible modes yet.

 I'm writing some background and requirement for the PMC[coming soon]