Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 10, Pages 503-516
doi:10.1155/S1110757X03203065
Eigenfrequencies of generally restrained beams
ICMASA, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Avenida Bolivia 5150, Salta 4440, Argentina
Received 13 March 2002; Revised 15 May 2003
Copyright © 2003 Ricardo Oscar Grossi and Carlos Marcelo Albarracín. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We deal with the exact determination of eigenfrequencies of a
beam with intermediate elastic constraints and generally
restrained ends. It is the purpose of this paper to use the
calculus of variations to obtain the equations of motion and the
natural boundary conditions, and particularly those at the
intermediate constraints. Numerical values for the first five
natural frequencies are presented in a tabular form for a wide
range of values of the restraint parameters. Several particular
cases are presented and some of these cases have been compared
with those available in the literature.