Distributed load along a beam, Finite difference method and ode 45 errors
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I have been working on this for a while but still not managed to get any graphs that make any sense, please see problem statement and code and graphs i have managed so far below
close all
clear all
clc
%variables
E=29*10^6; % elastic modulus (psi)
I=723; % moment of inertia (in^4)
q=500; %disrubuted load (lb/in)
L=36; %length
%equation
x=linspace(0,L);
y=((-q.*x.^2)/(24*E*I).*(6.*(L.^2)-4.*L.*x+x.^2));
%part a
%finite difference method
dx=6;
xx=0:dx:L;
yo=0;
yn=0;
ya=((dx.^2*q/(E*I))*((-L.^2/2)+L.*0-0.^2/2))/2;
A = [1 0 0 0 0;
-2 1 0 0 0;
1 -2 1 0 0;
0 1 -2 1 0;
0 0 1 -2 1];
z2=(dx.^2*q/(E*I))*((-L.^2/2)+L);
b = [(z2*xx(1)-xx(1).^2/2)+2*ya;
(z2*xx(2)-xx(2).^2/2)-ya;
(z2*xx(3)-xx(3).^2/2);
(z2*xx(4)-xx(4).^2/2);
(z2*xx(5)-xx(5).^2/2)];
yi=A\b;
yb=[yo yi(1:4)' yn yi(5)];
plot(x,y, 'r-',xx,yb, 'b')
hold
on
grid on
title('Graph of beam deflection')
xlabel(
'distance along beam(in)')
ylabel(
'deflection of beam (in)')
%part c
tspan=[0,36];
za=fzero(@res_project2,6);
y0=[0 za];
[x,yy]=ode45(@sys_project2,tspan,y0);
plot(x,yy(:,1),'k',x(1),yy(1,1),'og',x(end),y(end,1),'og')
legend(
'analytical','finite differance','shooting method','endpoints')
hold
off
%part d
xd=0:dx:L;
y=((((-q*x.^2)/24))/E*I);
ea=abs(y-ya);
figure(2)
plot(x,ea)
hold on
grid on
xlabel('distance along beam')
ylabel(
'abs error')
x=0:L:57;
[x,yy]=ode45(@sys_project2,tspan,y0);
ec=abs(y-yy(:,1));
plot(x,ec(:,1))
legend('fdm error','shooting method error')
% part e
% part f
% part g

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