1 Dynamics of transversally vibrating non-prismatic Timoshenko cantilever beams N. Navadeh, R. W. Hewson, A. S. Fallah * Department of Aeronautics, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, UK, SW7 2AZ Abstract The present study deals with evaluation of the dynamic response in a pulse loaded homogeneous non-prismatic Timoshenko cantilever beam. Subsequent to the derivation of the partial differential equations (PDE’s) of motion using extended Hamilton’s principle the eigenvalue problem has been set up and solved for eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions. Galerkin’s method of weighted residuals was applied to obtain governing ordinary differential equations (ODE’s) for the system. The dynamic response under arbitrary pulse loading is obtained using the method of eigenfunction expansion which attributes to displacement and rotation fields generalised coordinates when the exact modes are chosen as shape functions. It has been shown that inclusion of few terms (in this case 5) in the series expansion provides a good correlation between the displacement fields and the truncated series. Dimensionless response parameters are introduced and two methods of non-dimensionalisation are proposed which could be useful in dealing with generic problems of a specified formulation. Keywords: Timoshenko beam, non-prismatic cantilever, Galerkin method, eigenfunction expansion method, non-dimensionalisation * To whom correspondence should be addressed: Tel.: +442075945140, Email: [email protected] (Arash S. Fallah)
Dynamics of transversally vibrating non-prismatic Timoshenko cantilever beams
May 17, 2023
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