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Hi Mapes, thanks for the warm welcome and prompt reply. By discretized vertical load, do you refer to the point load, P, which I am increasing incrementally, or are you thinking of modelling the contact as discretized vertical loads? The words "variational calculus" do not strike fear, but...

I have been trying to analyze the deflection of the free end of a cantilevered beam with a point load P at the end. The trick is, the beam is supported underneath by a surface described by the arbitrary function g(x). So let's say that g(x)= 0.001*x^2, a very shallow parabola. As the beam...