Vibration analysis of a simply supported beam traversed by uniform distributed moving load

Considering the engineering background of some transportation system like maglev, vertical vibration of the simply supported beam is investigated. The length of the vehicle is assumed to be longer than the beam span. The model of moving distributed load with constant speed is established. The beam can be taken as Euler-Bernoulli beam model and the right side of the control equation is simplified by using a moving status function. Duhamel integral and mode superposition method is used to solve the dynamic behavior of the beam. In this aspect deflection and acceleration are included. The results of different parameters such as the span of beam, velocity of load and ratio vehicle-Beam masses are compared. All results show that the dynamic response of the beam is tied up with these factors: the frequency of the beam, the moving frequency of the load and the ratio of vehicle-beam mass.