A continuous cracked bar vibration model is developed for the lateral vibration of a cracked Euler-Bernoulli cantilevered beam with an edge crack. The Hu-Washizu-Barr variational formulation was used to develop the differential equation and the boundary conditions for the cracked beam as an one-dimensional continuum. The crack was modelled as a continuous flexibility using the displacement field in the vicinity of the crack found with fracture mechanics methods. The results of three independent evaluations of the lowest natural frequency of lateral vibrations of an aluminum cantilever beam with a single-edge crack are presented: the continuous cracked beam vibration model, the lumped crack model vibration analysis, and experimental results. Experimental results fall very close to the values predicted by the continuous crack formulation. Moreover, the continuous cracked beam theory agrees better with the experimental results than the lumped crack flexibility theory.

Issue Section:
Research Papers
Topics:
Cantilever beams, Vibration, Fracture (Materials), Aluminum, Boundary-value problems, Differential equations, Displacement, Euler-Bernoulli beam theory, Fracture mechanics, Vibration analysis
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