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Paper's Title:

On The Rayleigh-Love Rod Accreting In Both Length And Cross-Sectional Area: Forced And Damped Vibrations

Author(s):

M.L.G. Lekalakala1, M. Shatalov2, I. Fedotov3, S.V. Joubert4

1Department of Mathematics, Vaal University of Technology, P.O. Box 1889, Secunda, 2302, South Africa.
E-mail1: glen@vut.ac.za 

2,3,4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

Abstract:

In this paper an elastic cylindrical rod that is subjected to forced and damped vibrations is considered. The rod is assumed to be isotropic. The applied external force of excitation is assumed to be harmonic, and the damping force is that of Kelvin-Voigt. The longitudinally vibrating rod is fixed at the left end and free at the other end. The rod is assumed to be accreting in length and cross-sectional area as it vibrates. The problem arising and the dynamics of the vibrating rod are described and investigated within the Rayleigh-Love theories of the rod. A partial differential equation describing the longitudinal displacement of the rod is formulated. The formulated partial differential equation, together with the corresponding boundary conditions as per the configuration of the rod, is solved numerically using the Galerkin-Kantorovich method. The frequency of vibration of the harmonic exciting force is kept constant in this investigation.

It is shown that in this periodically forced viscoelastic damped vibration, all the modes of vibration are subjected to the resonance behaviour within a proper time interval, depending on the length of the accreting rod.


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