At the end of this section you should be able to
Create local and global stiffness and mass matrices for transverse vibration problems
Apply homogeneous boundary conditions to the model
Find natural frequencies
Show convergence of your results
The local mass matrix (for linear-elastic material in elastic deformation) is
and the local stiffness matrix under the same restrictions is
Note that different shape functions may be more appropriate for more complex materials and loadings and will yield different local matrices. These local matrices are for Euler-Bernoulli (i.e., “slender”) beams. The shape function and thus stiffness and mass matrices will be different for Timoshenko beams. Damping is neglected.
We restricted the analysis to systems with
Homogeneous boundary conditions
No forcing, only initial conditions
Deformation in only linear-elastic region
Negligible damping
No axial loading