Transversal waves in beams via the network simulation method

The numerical results have been compared with those obtained by the mode-superposition method: the agreement between them is impressive. The temporal behaviour of each quantity involved in the problem is obtained without transform complications, since the whole study has been conducted in the time-domain, with the possibility of obtaining the corresponding spectral content at the end of calculation. The main contribution of the present paper, therefore, is to employ the NSM numerical method in order to arrive at solutions, in the time-domain, of dynamic mechanical problems. One must also emphasize that NSM has not previously been used by other authors to solve physical problems like the ones presented here.