A Time-Domain DQ Approach for Vibration Analysis of Beams

Abstract

This paper presents a new time-domain DQ (differential quadrature) method for structural vibration analysis. It adopts differential quadrature method both in space domain and in time domain on the basis of governing partial differential equation and initial-boundary value condition of vibration problems of structures, and gets new differential quadrature linear equations with complete initial-boundary value conditions for solving all parameters of the displacement-field. The examples in this paper show the time-domain differential quadrature method is a useful and efficient tool for structural vibration analysis.