Tutorial 8
Tutorial 8
Tutorial 8
Free Damped Vibration
2. A shaft of torsional stiffness 5 Nm/rad is tied to its bottom end with an energy
wheel while to its top a body of constant mass. The moment of inertia of the nergy
wheel is 0.9 kg m2. A viscous damper is tied and it was found out that the
amplitude decreases to 1/100 after 2 cycles. Find:
a. damping ratio,
b. damping constant, C
c. periodic damped oscillation time, T
4. The diagram shows a rod of uniform cross-section ABD with its center of gravity at
B. The rod mass is 2.5 kg and its radius of gyration at B is 0.05 m. At end D of rod,
it carries a mass 10 kg and spring 7 kN/m. At end A of rod, it carries a mass 5 kg
and damper C located 75 mm from B.
If the rod ABD is given small displacement and it was found out that the amplitude
after 3 complete cycles is ½ of original, find,
a. damping ratio,
b. damped natural frequency, d
c. damping constant, C
6. A mass of 2.4 kg hanging from the lower end of a vertical spring is pulled
downward through a definite distance and then released. If the resulting motion is
controlled by viscous damping such that the ratio of the first downward
displacement to the third is 4:1 and five vibrations are completed in 4 s, find the
stiffness of the spring and the damping coefficient.