Two degree of freedom systems

 Free vibration analysis of an undamped

system
 Equations of motion for forced vibration
 Natural Modes
The equation of motion of a two degree-of-freedom system reduce to
M(t) +KX(t)=0 4.1

is the displacement vector and

Where X(t)= [x1(t) x2(t)]T

4.2
are the diagonal mass matrix and the symmetric stiffness
matrix, respectively.
• Equation 4.2 represents are two homogeneous ordinary
differential equation of second order.
Free vibration analysis of an undamped system

• For the free vibration analysis of the system shown in the figure, we set
F1(t)=F2(t)=0. Further, if the damping is disregarded, c1=c2=c3=0, and the
equations of motion reduce to:
4.3
 Notice that the two ratios are identical