The transient response of this considered cantilever beam
subjected to a suddenly loaded and suddenly vanished force
P¼1000g(t) are also studied. The time function g(t) is shown in
Fig. 15 and the results are plotted in Fig. 16. The similar displacements
u2 of point A can be obtained by the Wilson-θ, Houbolt and
the damped Newmark's algorithm with δ¼0.6, α¼0.5. The Newmark's
algorithm with δ¼0.7, α¼0.5 can achieve smaller amplitude
of the displacements.