Advance Modelling

Somsankar Mondal
Mtriculn Nr.1113969

Acknowledgement
I take this opportunity to thanks Prof.Dr. Klaus Grlebeck for his continuous support towards
upliftment of my knowledge in this field of applied mathematics and to understand the importance of
mathematics in the field of engineering. I also acknowledge effort of Dr. Dmitrii.Legatiuk to make me
able to complete this project with his capacity.

Table of Contents
1.0

INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................3

2.0

NUMERICAL SCEME..............................................................................................................................3
2.1 CrankNicholson Method......................................................................................................................5

3.0

MATLAB CODING...................................................................................................................................7

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RESULT AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................................9

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CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................15

1.0 INTRODUCTION.
In this project of Advance Modelling, it has been tried to solve numerically in Finite Difference Method the
EulerLagrange version of Euler-Bernoulli Beam Equation for a simply supported beam.
4th Order partial differential equation (parabolic in characteristic) as follow.

+EI

= f(x, t), x(0, L),

t(0, ) ............................... 1

Initial condition is parabolic in shape.

Where, Ui is initial condition at any point x.
= Density of the material.
A = Cross sectional area of the beam.
E = Modulus of elasticity of the beam material.
I = Moment of inertia of the member cross section.
L= Length of the beam.
E =Young's Modulus.
I = Moment of the inertia of the cross section of the beam. is m^4Mass of the beam per unit length, for
A = r= mass per unit length of beam in case of uniform cross section.
f(x,t)= Applied load at the section at x and time t.
The above equation has been tried to solve for displacement u(x,t) under following condition by writing a code
in MATLAB for the following condition.
1. Initial deflected shape of the beam only i.e. under only initial condition.
2. Triangular load, time dependent only without any initial deflection.
3. Triangular load, time dependent and some initial condition.
4. Sinusoidal load varying with time without initial condition.
5. Sinusoidal load varying with time with some initial condition.
In the last summer semester course, the same problem has been solved analytically and some comparison has
been made here for some simulation by both the method.

2.0

NUMERICAL SCEME.
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2.1 Implicit Backward Euler Method

From Taylor series expansion,
........................................2

...3
Where, superscript l is indicating node in time domain and i represents the respective node in discretized
domain of length of the beam i.e. x. Above mentioned O(dt) and O(dx) are the 1st degree error due to not
inclusion of higher order derivatives term in approximating the respective derivatives of
u(x, t) from Taylor series expansion.
In the equation 1, Utt(x, t) and Uxxxx(x, t) has been plugged in from equation 2 and 3.

Boundary Condition:

U(x=0) = U(x=L) = 0
Uxx(x=0)=Uxx(x=L)= 0

2.1 CrankNicholson Method

Taking average of the central difference approximations of Uxxxx at the three points l + 1, l and l1 yielding.

Boundary Condition
U(x=0) = U(x=L) = 0
Uxx(x=0)=Uxx(x=L)= 0

3.0 MATLAB CODING

3.1 Domain and Member property.
L= Length of the Beam in meter
t= Total time in sec.
dt = Time step size.
dx = Step size along the length of the beam.
E = Modulus of elasticity of the beam material in N/m2.
I = Moment of Inertia of the beam cross section, m4.

3.2 Beam Initial Displacement condition.

If any initial displacement is there in the member, can be realized through parabolic shape (ui=ax 2+bx+c).

U I (x=0) = 0;
Ui (x=L) =0;
Ui (x=xi) = user input in meter as a known initial displacement at xi.