Inverting mechanical and variable-order parameters of the Euler–Bernoulli beam on viscoelastic foundation

Abstract We propose an inverse problem of determining the mechanical and variable-order parameters of the Euler–Bernoulli beam on viscoelastic foundation. For this goal, we develop a fully-discrete Hermite finite element scheme for this model and analyze the corresponding error estimates. The Levenberg–Marquardt method is then applied to determine the multiple parameters. Extensive numerical experiments are performed under practical settings to demonstrate the behavior of the proposed model and the efficiency of the algorithm.