Influence of substructure properties on natural vibrations of periodic Euler-Bernoulli beams

In this paper there are considered vibrations of Euler-Bernoulli beams with geometrical and material properties periodically varying along the axis. The basic exact equations with highly oscillating periodic coefficients are replaced by the system of averaged equations with constant coefficients. The new model is based on the tolerance modelling technique, which describes macro-dynamics of the beam including the effect of the microstructure size. The purpose of this paper is to present an approximately equivalent model, which describe vibrations of periodic beams taking into account length of the periodicity cell.