“…With regard to numerical simulation, various methods have been proposed for the simulation of the Timoshenko beam equations. These range from the finite element methods mentioned above [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15], to reduced-order methods (Galerkin [16] and modal methods [17]), to pseudospectral methods [18] and specialised methods such as Discrete Singular Convolution [19]. Most of the work cited above deals with the problem of calculating the first few eigenfrequencies of the Timoshenko system, for engineering purposes.…”