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Theory of Vibration| | Civil, Mechanical
The way material vibrates under given condition is an important aspect of design of civil structures or mechanical
equipment. Historically unexpected failures of bridges and columns have happened because designers did not consider
effect of vibration. In this tutorial you will understand fundamentals of vibration and will learn how to apply it in
mechanical / civil design you undertake.
Summary of above lecture along with industrial application and career opportunities in the field of vibration are given
below.
A Simple Experiment to Understand Nature of VibrationConsider following spring-mass system. First spring is given a small initial stretch second spring is given more stretch. If
you measure time period of oscillation for both the cases you can find it is same! Both are having a time period of 6.28 s.
Fig.1 Different initial stretch is given to the same spring-mass system and time period is measured
This is one big characteristic of vibrating systems, time period of oscillation does not depend upon initial stretch you
give, it is a property of the system. More commonly used term used in vibrating world is frequency, which is defined as
follows.
Where T is time period of oscillation. Or one could say frequency of oscillation is a property of the system. More precise
term is natural frequency, since the system is made up of only stiffness and inertial components. This is true even for a
complicated system, say a bridge, chimney or an electronic circuit. All of them has got a property called natural frequency
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One can do mathematical analysis of any vibrating system with help of Newton's 2nd law of motion. Newton's second law
motion when applied on mass lead to following differential equation.
This equation has got many solutions, solution of highest significance is given below.
Where A is initial stretch given to the spring. Graphically it is represented as shown in below.
Fig.2 Graphical representation of motion of spring-mass system with time
Where Y is measured downward from equilibrium line, a line where at which gravitational force and spring force are
balanced (represented by blue dotted line). Time period of oscillation and angular frequency can be derived from equation
above as
So for a simple spring-mass system frequency of vibration is a function of mass and spring constant.If you substitute values
of spring constant and mass of previous experiment in above equation time period of vibration can be obtained as 6.28s.
Effect of Damping on VibrationYou can notice that vibration of mass continues forever in previous case, it never dies out. But this is not a practical case,
what do you see in practice is something like this.
Amplitude of oscillation decreases with time and it finally dies out. Here we have to consider effect of air viscous force on
mass in order to simulate this problem more accurately. Damping causes continuous energy loss to the system, as system
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Fig.3 Amplitude vibration decreases in an actual case due to effect of air viscous force
Forces acting on mass in this case shown in figure below in blue arrows. Here spring force and viscous(damping) forces are
acting on the mass, damping force is proportional velocity of mass with opposite sign of velocity. Effect of air viscous
force can be represented as a single viscous dash port as shown.
Fig.4 Forces acting on a damped vibration case
Mathematical solution of this problem can be obtained by applying Newton's 2nd law of motion to the system. The
differential equation so obtained will be
It has got one more term compared to simple spring-mass system case, a term to incorporate viscous force on mass.
Critical and Over DampingNow let us use a highly viscous fluid around the mass instead of air. Here you can find that vibration dies out much faster
and tendency of oscillation has decreased. As you increase viscosity of fluid further tendency for oscillation further
decreases. So there will be a limiting viscosity where oscillatory behavior of mass completely disappears. This phenomenon
is known as critical damping, where the mass goes back to its equilibrium position without any oscillation.
Fig.5 As viscosity of surrounding fluid is increased tendency for oscillation decreases and finally a case with no oscillation is reached
Coefficient of viscosity required for achieving critical damping is given by
You can further increase viscosity of surrounding, even above critical damping limit and notice that here also mass goes to
equilibrium position without any oscillation. This condition is known as overdamped.
Effect of External Force - ResonanceWhen an oscillating external force is applied on mass nature of vibration will change dramatically. Here oscillating
frequency will be same external force frequency, it is not related natural frequency of the system. Amplitude of the
oscillation is not the initial stretch given by the user, but it will be strong function of external frequency and natural
frequency. Amplitude of oscillation will become very high when external frequency and natural frequency values are very
close.If external force frequency is same as natural frequency of material it will result in a phenomenon called resonance,
where amplitude of oscillations become so high and it will eventually result in damage of material.
Industrial Applications1. The Intriguing problem of Chimney Collapse
Have you ever noticed rings at top of a chimney? What does it signify?
We will go through an incident which happened almost 100 years back. A chimney which conforms to mechanical
strength requirement was erected in England in 1900s. But surprising engineers who built it,the structure collapsed
one day. An enquiry was launched to investigate what went wrong in design of the chimney. After a detailed
research the enquiry commission came up with a startling report. Their conclusion was like this.
The collapse happened because designers did not consider effect of vibration / resonance of chimney. When wind
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blows across chimney during a particular wind speed range a phenomenon called Vortex shedding happens behind
the chimney, here flow vortexes appear and disappear at a particular frequency. This will induce fluctuating force
of same frequency on chimney. If frequency of vortex shedding is same as natural frequency of material of
construction this will lead to resonance. At resonance amplitude of oscillation becomes so large that structure
finally collapses. That exactly what happened for the chimney.
So what could be a solution for this danger. The obvious answer is prevent Vortex shedding phenomenon, so that
the chimney will not vibrate. And the rings you see on chimney are vortex breakers, which will distract the flow
and spoil vortex formation behind chimney.
2. Why do they spend lot of time on mass balancing?
Even if you fabricate a rotating component at high precision level there will be mass imbalance in the rotor.
Centrifugal force generated by this mass imbalance is equivalent to a forced vibration case. If you do not balance
this imbalance by a counter mass, it will result in vibration and damage of rotor.
How to build a career in field of Vibration?Excited about field of vibration? Do you want a build career in this filed ? If answers to these questions are Yes, then an
exciting world of NVH (Noice,Vibration & Harshness) is awaiting you. There are 2 different career streams available
according to your interest
1. Experimental analysis and Development
Balancing of rotating components
Noise testing
2. FEA based simulation and Development
You can simulate almost all the things you do experimentally in computers using FEA. So it is obvious that you have to
have a strong knowledge in Finite Element Analysis in order to enter this job domain. Anyway before you start dreaming
on this careers first thing you have to do is gain more in-depth knowledge on vibration. Hope from this website you got a
good introduction to this filed. Now its time to go through some standard text books and learn more on this field.
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