Steady-State Response of a Beam on an Elastic Foundation Subjected to a Moving Structure

Abstract

The steady-state response of a beam on an elastic foundation subjected to a moving structure with constant speed is studied. The moving structure is assumed as an elastic Euler-Bernoulli beam with distributed stiffness and inertial effect considered in the analysis. The integral transforms methods are introduced to transform the partial differential equations to algebraic equations. Then parametric analyses by numerical examples are performed.