Abstract
The contribution at hand deals with the derivation and calculation of beamsystems. In contrast to the well known and widely used finite element method (FEM) an analytical approach is used here. In no way the FEM should be made to appear in a negative light here, but using the FEM for dynamical simulation, up to date computer hardware reaches its limits very quickly. Especially for nonlinear calculations days and weeks of computation time are no rarity. Hence it is nessecary to use analytical methods instead. Basically, beams are distributed parametric systems, therefore the equation of motion is a partial differential equation. It is well known that solving this type of equation can be hard work and quite challenging. Exact solutions can only be found in very few cases and if dealing with nonlinear phenomenons one is mostly fighting a losing battle. Because of this, approximations have to be used. The Ritz method seems to be highly suitable for analytical observations. In this work it is shown, that the analytical methods can not only be used calculating simple beams, but could also play a major roll when dealing with threedimensional continuum mechanics.
Original language | German (Austria) |
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Publication status | Published - Dec 2012 |
Fields of science
- 203022 Technical mechanics
- 203013 Mechanical engineering
- 202035 Robotics
- 203015 Mechatronics
JKU Focus areas
- Mechatronics and Information Processing