Forced vibrations of a clamped-free beam with a mass at the free end with an external periodic disturbance acting on the mass with applications in ships' structures

Abstract

An exact, analytical solution is obtained for the title problem which constitutes a classical one although no solution is available in well known textbooks and handbooks normally used by the structural engineer in several fields of technology: ocean and naval engineering, aerospace applications, etc. The authors performed this study motivated by a situation where excessive displacements were noticed in a structural element carrying a relatively small motor at the free end and placed at the engine room of a naval vessel. The Bernoulli-Euler model has been employed. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.