UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA MECÁNICA Y ELÉCTRICA

AEROELASTICIDAD Y LABORATORIO

ACTIVITY#1 REPORT ON RECENT ADVANCES IN STRUCTURAL

DYNAMICS

SEMESTRE AGOSTO-DICIEMBRE 2021

Name Student
Number
Julio Isaac Cazares Bazaldua 1938349
José Ángel Ferreyra Ríos 1850141
Ruy Rodrigo Diaz Alvear 1841519
Emmanuel Lozano Cruz 1727890
Carlos Ivan Rodríguez Cabello 1877451
Miguel Antonio Juarez Monroy 1943563

Hour: N3 -N6 Day: 1

09/08/2021.
San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León.
 Using Recorded Data to Improve SRS Test Development
Joe Minderhoud, Caleb Chamberlain

One way to analyze mechanical shock phenomena is the Shock Response Spectrum
(SRS) method. However, synthetic waves are used in all such analyzes. Synthetic waves
can be studied from a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) since the results will give us
information on both the magnitude of the accelerations and the phase information on the
shock pulses; there is no synthetic pulse with a frequency response that resembles a
natural transient event in the real world.
An SRS tries to represent the response of a model with accelerations in the frequency
domain by simulating a response from several systems of a single degree of freedom with
mass-spring-damper form, the aim is to graph the behavior of the systems to obtain
information on the maximum dynamic load as a function of frequency (Fig. 1); the
maximum acceleration of the impact are the cause of structural damage and is
information provided by the SRS analysis.

Figure 1: A sample SRS model

In the real world, no oscillatory event is the same as another, so data logs help provide a
representative wave base for a single event. An SRS waveform synthesized in a particular
environment provides a lack of information to be analyzed as a function of frequency,
which is why a set of data on the same event must be used to construct a representative
waveform.
To test the use of the SRS method, a series of golf ball hit data was taken, these data
were processed and combined to generate a representative wave and its frequency
response was compared using the SRS with a synthetic wave. The results showed that
the synthetic wave does not coincide with the natural wave, the natural wave showed
realistic characteristics despite having gone through a process of iterations to be able to
be analyzed in SRS (Fig. 2).

Figure 2: The modified user waveform overlaid on the original recording

EXTRA

• Is it true that a bridge can fall when marching troops are passing?

The short answer is yes, a bridge may fall due to marching troops, but it requires some
factors acting on the same bridge; First of all, any rigid object has a resonant frequency
fixed due to its material, shape and design, this frequency must be the same or a multiple
of the one at which the troops are marching; Another factor is that the majority of the
people must be marching at the same frequency (which is assumed in a troop); The
design of the bridge must have miscalculated the match of both the last factors, therefore
adding no damper in the structure which dissipates the oscillations.

References
Joel M. And Caleb C. (2020). Using Recorded Data to Improve SRS Test Development.
Vibration Research, 1294 Chicago Drive, Jenison, MI 49428.

Eckhardt, B. and Ott, E., 2006. Crowd synchrony on the London Millennium
Bridge. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 16(4), p.041104.