Free Vibrations of Generally Restrained Beams

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the free vibration characteristics of tapered beams with translational and rotational springs and point masses at the ends. The beam model is based on the classical Bernoulli-Euler beam theory which neglects the effects of rotatory inertia and shear deformation. The governing differential equation for the free vibrations of linearly tapered beams is solved numerically using the corresponding boundary conditions. Numerical results are compared with existing solutions by other methods for cases in which they are available. The lowest four natural frequencies are calculated over a range of non-dimensional system parameters.