Dynamics of nonlinear transversely vibrating beams: Parametric and closed-form solutions

Nonlinear transversely vibrating beams, including a uniform beam carrying a lumped mass and a transversely vibrating quintic nonlinear beam, are considered in this paper. Firstly, using trigonometric function, analytical solutions to their Cauchy initial problems are constructed in parametric and closed-form. Secondly, it is found that one has the freedom to choose any periodic function to simulate the periodic vibration theoretically. As an example, we also construct parametric and closed-form solution expressed by Jacobi elliptic function. Thirdly, by comparing the two kinds of derived solutions, it is shown that the Jacobi elliptic function solution can degenerate to the corresponding trigonometric function solution when the modulus tends to zero. Comparison are also made between our derived Jacobi elliptic function solution and other's exact solution, which indicates that the presented parametric solution method is more general.