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I am trying find the natural frequency of a vibration problem

The standard eigenvalue problem looks like

Kx=lMx

for which there is a simple eig(K,M) command that does the
trick. 

The trouble is that the K matrix is frequency dependent in
this case. So, each element of the K matrix is a function of
frequency. How can I approach this type of a problem in matlab?

Help will be much appreciated!! 

Thanks,
YM