Research Article

A Semianalytical Method for Nonlinear Vibration of Euler-Bernoulli Beams with General Boundary Conditions

Table 4

Nonlinear central deflection response of a simply supported beam: solutions with varying number of terms in time domain series Ns.

Time (s)Ns=1Ns=3Ns=5Woinowsky-Krieger [1]Error 1Error 2Error 3

0.00500.86220.85660.85530.85331.05050.38950.2405
0.01000.48110.47200.47000.46653.13601.18280.7540
0.0150-0.0420-0.0398-0.0395-0.04043.7991-1.6178-2.2036
0.0300-0.9965-0.9939-0.9942-0.99630.0134-0.2437-0.2146
0.0400-0.4060-0.3952-0.3938-0.39283.35880.62300.2717
0.04500.12590.12400.12310.12104.06922.47801.7217
0.05500.93350.93000.92970.92860.52940.15430.1177
0.06500.76720.75960.75740.75451.68040.66770.3804
0.0750-0.2086-0.2022-0.2010-0.20093.82590.66910.0613
0.0850-0.9596-0.9547-0.9549-0.95660.3065-0.2001-0.1767
0.0900-0.9698-0.9655-0.9657-0.96760.2261-0.2173-0.1960
0.0950-0.7113-0.6999-0.6983-0.69741.98720.3496 0.1245
0.1000-0.2477-0.2404-0.2390-0.23873.76150.7006 0.1317