Critical behaviour of a Timoshenko beam-half plane system under a moving load

Summary

In this contribution, attention is focused on the problem of a moving load on a Timoshenko beam-half plane system. Both the subcritical and the supercritical state will be analysed via a FE-simulation. The character of the response is explained by the analytical derivation and the elaboration of the eigen-value problem that follows from the characteristic wave equations together with the boundary conditions. It will be demonstrated that also transcritical states can occur. The total number of critical states and the values of the corresponding critical velocities are determined by the beam-half plane stiffness properties as well as the contact conditions.