Investigating the Effect of Damping Coefficients on Euler-Bernoulli Beam Subjected to Partially Distributed Moving Load

In this paper, the effect of damping coefficients on Euler Bernoulli Beam subjected to distributed load is studied. The partial differential equation of order five was transformed to ordinary differential equation of order two using finite fourier sine transform. Finite difference method was used to solve the resulting differential equation of order two. It was found that the amplitude decreases as the speed of the load increases with the introduction of damping coefficient and flexural rigidity while the amplitude of the deflection increases when there is no damping.