A Comparative Study on Optimal Structural Dynamics Using Wavelet Functions

Table 1

Absolute errors and calculation time of free-scaled Chebyshev wavelet and Duhamel (example 5.1).

	Chebyshev wavelet		Duhamel
SM point	( = 0.05 s)		( = 0.01 s)
		(sec)	(sec)
= 4		2.8654	8.527
= 8		5.3475
= 32		9.3321
= 64		36.3918
= 128		78.8623
= 256		141.1936