Free-end compatibility for a swimming beam

ID: free-end-compatibility-for-a-swimming-beam

For , zero bending moment and transverse force at the leading end give . The two trailing-end free-end bending boundary conditions hold exactly when the displayed two integrals vanish. They express total transverse force and torque balance. Adding unknown rigid translation and yaw to a prescribed deformation supplies the two degrees of freedom of the swimming recoil correction. Its principal inertial matrix is the weighted moment matrix of and with weight , hence is positive definite for a nondegenerate positive mass distribution.

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