Research Article

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

Table 5

Nonlinear central deflection response of a simply supported beam: solutions with varying total number of sampling points N.

Time (s)N=9N=11N=13Woinowsky-Krieger [1]Error 4Error 5Error 6

0.00500.85660.85620.85620.85330.38950.34580.3484
0.01000.47200.47110.47120.46651.18280.99221.0026
0.0150-0.0398-0.0410-0.0410-0.0404-1.61781.46241.4228
0.0300-0.9939-0.9967-0.9967-0.9963-0.24370.04110.0378
0.0400-0.3952-0.3969-0.3970-0.39280.62301.06061.0657
0.04500.12400.12230.12230.12102.47801.06511.0839
0.05000.61060.60970.60970.60480.95130.79840.8054
0.06500.75960.75850.75860.75450.66770.53000.5335
0.0750-0.2022-0.2033-0.2033-0.20090.66911.19241.1903
0.0850-0.9547-0.9580-0.9579-0.9566-0.20010.13910.1377
0.0900-0.9655-0.9687-0.9687-0.9676-0.21730.11400.1122
0.0950-0.6999-0.7017-0.7017-0.69740.34960.60710.6093
0.1000-0.2404-0.2415-0.2415-0.23870.70061.17161.1717