18/02/2021

Week 2 Live Lecture

Forced Vibrations: Constant Loads

Structural Dynamics,
Advanced Structural Analysis
Dr Glen Cooper

Please Remember that teaching will work through…

Each Week (Week 1-5) there will be a live lecture through blackboard

There will also be video lecture material in blackboard

– ideally you will have watched this before
the live lecture each week.

Some weeks there will also be tutorial questions

2 Forced Vibrations: Constant Loads

Advanced Structural Analysis

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Example Step Constant Load

What happens if we apply a
constant load to a damped
system?

Example Step Constant Load

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Example Step Constant Load

Example Step Constant Load

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Revision: Solving Differential Equation

Example Step Constant Load

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Example Step Constant Load

Constant Force Vibration?

What about an example…

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Constant Force Vibration?

… or even better a problem for

you to do…

Q1. What is the equation of motion?

Q2. What is the equation for displacement?
Q3. How long does it take to complete 5 cycles of
vibration?
Q4. What is the amplitude of vibration after 5 cycles?

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Q1. What is the equation of motion?

Q2. What is the equation for displacement?

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Q3. How long does it take to complete 5 cycles of

vibration?

Q4. What is the amplitude of vibration after 5 cycles?

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Undamped Harmonic Loading

Vibration is about energy transfer (strain energy to kinetic energy)

In free vibration situations energy is conserved in the system:-

𝟏 𝟏
𝑲𝑬 = 𝟐 𝒎𝒗𝟐 and 𝐒𝐄 = 𝟐 𝒌𝒙𝟐 so 𝑲𝑬𝒎𝒂𝒙 = 𝑺𝑬𝒎𝒂𝒙

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Harmonic Force Vibration?

What about an example…

Example
Industrial buildings often have suspended floors and machinery is
placed on top of this. In this case a large rotating machine with a
mass of 2 tonnes is placed on the floor and creates a static
deflection of 1.8mm. During operation the machine generates an
out of balance force of 5kN at an operating speed of 1200rpm.
Assuming a damping ratio of 3% calculate the resulting steady state
vibration amplitude of the floor.

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Example

Example

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What should you do now?

If you have had any problems so far please go back and watch the
previous videos/review the lecture notes/examples

A new topic will be released tomorrow (Friday each week) – please try
to watch these videos and look at the material before the next live
lecture on Thursday next week (Week 3 topic will be impulse loading)

Thank you for listening

Any Questions?
(please use the chat function)
Also I will be in the zoom room between about 10am-11.50am today
https://zoom.us/j/95641269104

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