2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Authors : Czesław I. Bajer, Bartłomiej Dyniewicz
Published in: Numerical Analysis of Vibrations of Structures under Moving Inertial Load
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Computer methods are commonly used now in engineering design, manufacturing, and applications. They replace experimental methods of verification, especially if experiments are expensive, time consuming, or difficult to perform. Static analysis, plastic deformations, optimization, and free vibrations are fields sufficiently well explored, and now possess efficient numerical procedures implemented in commercial software. But the case of moving loads is not represented in such computer codes. Design engineers use simplifications and approximations known from analytical solutions. These are often adequate if the load does not change the dynamical properties of the structure, i.e. is massless. In the case of an inertial load we do not have adequate tools.