Tutorial 5 Vibration

1 (a) Consider the system of Figure 1. For c1 = c2 = c3 = 0, derive the equation of

motion and calculate the mass and stiffness matrices. Note that setting k3 = 0 in
your solution should result in the stiffness matrix given by Eq. (4.9).

Figure 1.

1 (b) Calculate the characteristic equation from problem 1 (a) for the case
m1 = 9 kg, m2 = 1 kg, k1 = 24 N/m, k2 = 3 N/m, k3 = 3 N/m
and solve for the system's natural frequencies.

1 (c) Calculate the vectors u1 and u2 for problem 1 (b).

1 (d) For initial conditions

calculate the free response of the system of Problem 1 (b). Plot the response x1
and x2.

2. Compute the natural frequencies of the following system:

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3. A slightly more sophisticated model of a vehicle suspension system is given in

Figure 3. Write the equations of motion in matrix form. Calculate the natural
frequencies for k1 =103 N/m, k2 = 104 N/m, m2 = 50 kg, and m1 = 2000 kg.

Figure 3.

4. Normalize the vectors

first with respect to unity (i.e., xT x = 1) and then again with respect to the matrix
M (i.e., xT Mx = 1), where

5. Calculate the natural frequencies and normalized mode shapes of

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