Modeling of system dynamics of a slewing flexible beam with moving payload pendulum

摘要

When a tower crane is handling payload via rotation and moving the carriage simultaneously the jib structure and the payload can be modeled as a system consisting of a slewing flexible clamed-free beam with the spherical payload pendulum that moves along the beam. The present work completes the dynamic modeling of the system mentioned above. The clamed-free beam attached to a rotating hub is modeled by Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The payload is modeled as a sphere pendulum of point mass attached to via massless inextensible cable the carriage moving on the rotating beam. Non-linear coupled equations of motion of the in- and out-of-plane of the beam and the payload pendulum are derived by means of the Hamilton principle. Some remarks are made on the equations of motion. (C) 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd.