JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, cilt.301, ss.420-426, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
The present note is concerned with the derivation of the characteristic equation of a cantilevered, visco-elastic bending beam (Kelvin-Voigt model), carrying a tip mass. Further, it is attempted to represent this continuous system by an "equivalent" spring-damper-mass system. Then, the "first" eigenvalues of these systems are calculated and tabulated for a wide range of the non-dimensional mass parameter. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.