1. The document provides tutorial problems related to mechanical vibrations. It includes 17 figures showing various mechanical systems involving springs, dampers, masses, and other components.
2. The problems involve determining natural frequencies, equivalent spring constants, equations of motion, maximum displacements, damping ratios, and other vibration analysis calculations for the systems.
3. Solutions require applying principles of vibrations including modeling systems as mass-spring-damper systems and using concepts like natural frequency, damping, and harmonic motion.
1. The document provides tutorial problems related to mechanical vibrations. It includes 17 figures showing various mechanical systems involving springs, dampers, masses, and other components.
2. The problems involve determining natural frequencies, equivalent spring constants, equations of motion, maximum displacements, damping ratios, and other vibration analysis calculations for the systems.
3. Solutions require applying principles of vibrations including modeling systems as mass-spring-damper systems and using concepts like natural frequency, damping, and harmonic motion.
1. The document provides tutorial problems related to mechanical vibrations. It includes 17 figures showing various mechanical systems involving springs, dampers, masses, and other components.
2. The problems involve determining natural frequencies, equivalent spring constants, equations of motion, maximum displacements, damping ratios, and other vibration analysis calculations for the systems.
3. Solutions require applying principles of vibrations including modeling systems as mass-spring-damper systems and using concepts like natural frequency, damping, and harmonic motion.
1. The document provides tutorial problems related to mechanical vibrations. It includes 17 figures showing various mechanical systems involving springs, dampers, masses, and other components.
2. The problems involve determining natural frequencies, equivalent spring constants, equations of motion, maximum displacements, damping ratios, and other vibration analysis calculations for the systems.
3. Solutions require applying principles of vibrations including modeling systems as mass-spring-damper systems and using concepts like natural frequency, damping, and harmonic motion.
2016-17 TUTORIAL SHEET UNIT I 1. Develop a mathematical model for the tractor and plow shown in Fig. 1 by considering the mass, elasticity, and damping of the tires, shock absorbers, and plows (blades).
2. Determine the equivalent spring constant of the system shown in Fig. 2.
3. In Fig. 3 find the equivalent mass of the rocker arm assembly with respect to the x coordinate. 4. The impact force created by a forging hammer can be modeled as shown in Fig. 4. Determine the Fourier series expansion of the impact force. 5. Find the natural frequency of the pulley system shown in Fig. 5 by neglecting the friction and the masses of the pulleys. 6. Figure 6 shows a metal block supported on two identical cylindrical rollers rotating in opposite directions at the same angular speed. When the center of gravity of the block is initially displaced by a distance x, the block will be set into simple harmonic motion. If the frequency of motion of the block is found to be n determine the coefficient of friction between the block and the rollers. If two identical springs of stiffness k each are further attached to the metal block as shown in Fig. 7, determine the coefficient of friction between the block and the rollers. 7. A pulley 250 mm in diameter drives a second pulley 1,000 mm in diameter by means of a belt (see Fig. 8). The moment of inertia of the driven pulley is 0.2 kg-m2. The belt connecting these pulleys is represented by two springs, each of stiffness k. For what value of k will the natural frequency be 6 Hz? 8. A uniform slender rod of mass m and length l is hinged at point A and is attached to four linear springs and one torsional spring, as shown in Fig. 9. Find the natural frequency of the system if k = 2000 N/m, kt = 1000 N-m/rad and l = 5 m. 9. A cylinder of mass m and mass moment of inertia Jo is free to roll without slipping but is restrained by two springs of stiffnesses k1 and k2 and as shown in Fig. 10. Find its natural frequency of vibration. Also find the value of a that maximizes the natural frequency of vibration. 10. Find the equation of motion of the uniform rigid bar OA of length l and mass m shown in Fig. 11. Also find its natural frequency. 11. A shock absorber is to be designed to limit its overshoot to 15 percent of its initial displacement when released. Find the damping ratio o required. What will be the overshoot if is made equal to (a) 3/4 o and (b) 5/4 o. 12. A railroad car of mass 2,000 kg traveling at a velocity v = 10 m/s is stopped at the end of the tracks by a spring-damper system, as shown in Fig. 12. If the stiffness of the spring is k = 80 N/mm and the damping constant is c = 20 N-sec/mm, determine (a) the maximum displacement of the car after engaging the springs and damper and (b) the time taken to reach the maximum displacement. 13. A viscously damped system has a stiffness of 5,000 N/m, critical damping constant of 0.2 Ns/mm, and a logarithmic decrement of 2.0. If the system is given an initial velocity of 1 m/s, determine the maximum displacement of the system. 14. The system shown in Fig. 13 has a natural frequency of 5 Hz for the following data: m = 10 kg, J0 = 5 kg-m2, r1= 10 cm, r2= 25 cm. When the system is disturbed by giving it an initial displacement, the amplitude of free vibration is reduced by 80 percent in 10 cycles. Determine the values of k and c. 15. A spring-mass system is found to vibrate with a frequency of 120 cycles per minute in air and 100 cycles per minute in a liquid. Find the spring constant k, the damping constant c, and the damping ratio when vibrating in the liquid. Assume m = 10 kg. 16. Find the responses of systems governed by the following equations of motion for the initial conditions x(0) = 1, 𝑥̇ (0) = -1: a. 2𝑥̈ + 8𝑥̇ + 16𝑥 = 0 b. 3𝑥̈ + 12𝑥̇ + 9𝑥 = 0 c. 2𝑥̈ + 8𝑥̇ + 8𝑥 = 0
17. Find the equivalent spring constant of the system shown in Fig. 14 in the direction of the load P.
18. In the Charpy impact test a specimen is struck and broken by a pendulum (or hammer) and the energy absorbed in breaking the specimen is measured. This energy values serve is used for comparing the impact strengths of different materials. As shown in Fig. 15, the pendulum is suspended from a shaft, and is released from a particular position, and is allowed to fall and break the specimen. If the pendulum is made to oscillate freely (with no specimen), find (a) an expression for the decrease in the angle of swing for each cycle caused by friction, (b) the solution for (t)if the pendulum is released from an angle 0, and (c) the number of cycles after which the motion ceases. Assume the mass
of the pendulum is m and the coefficient of friction between the shaft and the bearing of the pendulum is
Pipe cutting mechanism in a continuous production process consists of a large disc of radius R and mass M which can oscillate around its centre O. At the end of a light rod of length length L, a motor of mass m is attached with a cutting wheel (Fig. 16). The system can oscillate on the plane of the disc about the point O. Determine the time period of oscillations of the system for small angles. Also determine the maximum angular velocity
20. Figures 17 (a), (b) and (c) shows the same vibratory system in three different orientations. Establish the governing equations of motion and obtain the natural frequency in each case.
21. A body of mass M = 1 kg, lies on a dry horizontal plane and is connected by spring to a rigid support. The body is displaced from the unstressed position by an amount equal to 0.255 m with the tension in the spring at this displacement equal to 49 N and then released with zero velocity. How long will the body vibrate and at what distance from the unstressed position will it stop if the coefficient of friction is 0.25? Fig. 1
