Analytical and numerical solution of an Euler–Bernoulli beam with concentrated load using finite element method
2018 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Investigation of a fourth order Euler-Bernoulli partial differential equation governinga simply supported beam with point load is done analytically by using the Diracdeltadistribution for both homogeneous and non-homogeneous (forced) vibration.A solution is derived and plotted for the first five modes. A finite element methodis implemented for numerical solution of the resulting differential equation system.The solution of the differential equation system is implemented by the Newmark-Beta method. The results from the analytical solution and the numerical methodare logically matching. Experiments with stochastic load is also performed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 36
Keywords [en]
Euler-Bernoulli, PDE, Delta-Dirac, Vibration, Fourier expansion, Finite Element method, steady-state, Harmonic, Stochastic load, Uniform random number.
National Category
Computational Mathematics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71527OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-71527DiVA, id: diva2:1190632
Presentation
2018-02-21, Linnaeus University, Växjö, 09:46 (English)
Supervisors
Examiners
2018-03-152018-03-152018-03-15Bibliographically approved