Cantileverd Beam

Model

Course Objectives

• introduce Octave/Matlab world to undergraduate students
• learn how to build structural dynamic equations for a model
• realize FEM discretization and matrix assembly
• call eig() to compute the generalized eigen values/vectors
• understand the whole solving process of a normal ODE using lsode()

Program Can

• dynamically re-discrete the beam
• compute the natural frequencies of the beam
• show one specified modal shape
• give the dynamic response of the beam under specific loads