Assessing dynamic response of multispan viscoelastic thin beams under a moving mass via generalized moving least square method

Dynamic response of multispan viscoelastic thin beams subjected to a moving mass is studied by an efficient numerical method in some detail.To this end,the unknown parameters of the problem are discretized in spatial domain using generalized moving least square method(GMLSM) and then,discrete equations of motion based on Lagrange's equation are obtained.Maximum deflection and bending moments are considered as the important design parameters.The design parameter spectra in terms of mass weight and velocity o...