Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Department of Civil Engineering

Autumn Semester 2016-2017

CE 616 Structural Dynamics

HOMEWORK-1 SOLUTION

Solution:
1. Underdamped system
a. Period of vibration

k
m

Given,
k = 20 MN/m = 20 106 N/m
m = 5000 kg
Therefore, Natural frequency,

Time period, T

20 106
63.25 r/s
5000

2
2

0.10 s

63.246

b. Free vibration response

For underdamped system, free vibration response is given by,

v x0
x(t ) e- t x0 cos D t 0
sin D t
D

where,

D 1 2 represents damped frequency and x0 and v0 are initial displacement and velocity, respectively.
Given, x0 100 mm = 0.1 m and v0 0 m/s
Therefore,

0.1

x(t ) e- (63.246)t 0.1cos 63.246 1- 2 t

sin 63.246 1- 2 t
2
1-

The free vibration responses evaluated using above formula, for the damping ratios = 0.0,
= 0.05 are compared in the figure below.

The responses are plotted for 0 to 6 seconds with t = 0.01 s .

2. Critically damped system
The response is given by the following expression
x(t ) x0 (1 t ) v0t et

The free vibration response evaluated using above formula is also shown in figure below.

Figure 1. Displacement response for different damping ratios (up to 6 s)

Figure 2. Displacement response for different damping ratios (up to 1 s)