VIBRATIONS OF A BEAM IN A FIELD OF COLOR NOISE

Abstract

An attempt is made to clear vibrations of a beam resting on a viscoelastic support from noise effects. It is assumed that Bernoulli-Euler hypothesis holds. Effects of white, red, pink, purple and blue noise are considered. Noise is accounted for as a component of an alternating distributed load. Equations of motion of the beam areobtained as partial derivatives from Hamilton-Ostrogradski principle. Partial derivative equations are reduced to a Cauchy problem, using a second-order accuracy finite difference method, which is solved by Runge-Kutta-type methods. To clear vibrations of the beam from noise, the main component method was applied. This method was used to process the solutions of linear partial differential equations describing vibrations of rectangular beams resting on a viscoelastic support. Solutions of the equations were represented in the form of a 2D data array corresponding to deflections in the nodes of the beam at different times. The quality of clearing was assessed by comparing the Fourier power spectra obtained in the absence of noise effects with those that had noise effects, and after clearing. Problems for beams simply supported at both ends, fully fixed at both ends, simply supported at one end and fully fixed at the other one are considered. It was possible to clear the signals from four types of noise: white, pink, blue and purple.