1997 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Flexural Waves in Beams
Author : James F. Doyle
Published in: Wave Propagation in Structures
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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A beam is a long slender member designed to support lateral loads. In doing so, the displacement is predominantly transverse to the centerline, and internal shear forces and bending moments are generated. The dynamic behavior of beams is called flexural motion.