On Saint-Venant's principle in the two-dimensional flexural vibrations of elastic beams (Q1779643)

The authors give a quantitative estimate of the violation of Saint-Venant's principle for flexural vibrations of two-dimensional strips. A probabilistic approach is used to determine the relative magnitude of the penetrating stress state, and the results of computations are presented as a function of frequency. The results do not depend on material properties except for Poisson's ratio. The main conclusion is that, over a wide range of frequencies, the maximum propagating stress is always small compared with the maximum applied stress; hence Saint-Venant's principle may be said to be valid for the title problem. An interesting outcome of the study is that the accuracy of engineering theories for flexural vibrations is much higher than for longitudinal vibrations.