ABSTRACT
Analysis of beams showing physical or geometrical discontinuities along the beam span has been conducted in the literature byYavari et al. (2000, 2001) and byYavari & Sarkani (2001). However, in these cases integration is usually performed by seeking continuous solution functions over domains between discontinuities and imposing continuity conditions. Procedures based on integration over the entire beam span, however requiring enforcement ofthe continuity conditions, have been also proposed in the literature by Falsone (2002). As a result the computational effort depends on the number of discontinuities and no closed form solutions, have been proposed so far.
