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Finite Fourier Transform Analysis of the Flexure of a Non-Uniform Beam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. E. Jones*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham

Extract

The object of this paper is to present an analytical method of investigating the flexure of a non-uniform beam under transverse loading. A method due to Strandhagen for a uniform beam is extended to the case of a non-uniform beam, the deflection appearing in the form of a Fourier series, the coefficients of which are functions of the loading, the end-conditions, and parameters which define the non-uniform flexural rigidity of the beam.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1956

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