A vast amount of published work can be found in the field of beam vibrations dealing with analytical and numerical techniques. This paper deals with the vibration in a simply supported beam (SSB) having varying mass. This problem is generally faced by engineers at the time of construction of bridges, vibration in axle shaft of rail road car in order to withstand the forced vibration due to moving objects and other factors. This paper involves the implementation of Meirovitch equation [1] of motion to obtain the frequency of simply supported beam having mass varying in ‘x ’direction. This approach involves the application of boundary condition [3] to get generalised result for the frequency of SSB.
Vibrations in (SSB), Varying mass, Meirovitch equation, boundary condition, frequency of SSB
