Steel and Composite Structures
Volume 14, Number 1, 2013, pages 73-83
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2013.14.1.073
On the large amplitude free vibrations of axially loaded Euler-Bernoulli beams
Mahmoud Bayat, Iman Pakar and Mahdi Bayat
Abstract
In this paper Hamiltonian Approach (HA) have been used to analysis the nonlinear free vibration of Simply-Supported (S-S) and for the Clamped-Clamped (C-C) Euler-Bernoulli beams fixed at one end subjected to the axial loads. First we used Galerkin\'s method to obtain an ordinary differential equation from the governing nonlinear partial differential equation. The effect of different parameter such as variation of amplitude to the obtained on the non-linear frequency is considered. Comparison of HA with
Runge-Kutta 4th leads to highly accurate solutions. It is predicted that Hamiltonian Approach can be applied
easily for nonlinear problems in engineering.
Key Words
non-linear vibration, analytical solution, beam vibration, Runge-Kutta 4th
Address
Mahmoud Bayat, Iman Pakar and Mahdi Bayat: Department of Civil Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran