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Mechanical Vibrations
Lecture #12
Multiple Degree of Freedom
Free Response + MATLAB
Free Response
, as we did for
( Ms
+ 2Cs + 2K ) ( Ms + Cs + K ) (Cs + K ) = 0
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Characteristic Equation
There are four solutions that satisfy the characteristic
equation and these solutions are expressed as follows when the
modal frequencies are underdamped:
Modal vector
(can be scaled)
Decaying co-sinusoid
(common to both degrees of freedom)
Example Solution
For K=1 N/m, C=0.1 Ns/m, and M=1 kg, the solution is given
by:
MATLAB Solution
To obtain solutions for the free response in MATLAB, the
procedure explained before for a single DOF system is used:
Or
MATLAB Solution
We use the following formulation to define the outputs, {y}, if
we are only interested in the displacement variables:
Or:
Eigenvalue Problem
Consider the case when we have no damping:
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Eigenvalue Problem
Consider the case when we have no damping:
[v,d]= eig(A);
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Matlab eig
How do we interpret what Matlab gives us with this
command?
v=
-0.8507 -0.5257
0.5257 -0.8507
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Matlab eig
First, we take the negative square root of the diagonal entries
of the d matrix providing the modal frequencies in rad/s:
-d =
0+1.6180i
0
0
0+0.6181i
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[v,d]= eig(A);
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Matlab eig
How do we interpret what Matlab gives us with this
command in the first order form of the state variable model?
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Matlab eig
Eigenvectors are not the modal vectors of the 2nd order system
eigenvectors involve both position and velocity states. We
look to the position states to obtain the scaled modal vectors.
v=[
-0.0362 - 0.4457i
0.0224 + 0.2755i
0.7236
-0.4472 + 0.0000i
-0.0362 + 0.4457i
0.0224 - 0.2755i
0.7236
-0.4472 - 0.0000i
-0.4472 + 0.0000i
-0.7236
0.0085 - 0.2763i
0.0138 - 0.4470i
-0.4472 - 0.0000i
-0.7236
0.0085 + 0.2763i
0.0138 + 0.4470i
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For this type of damping, note that the modal vectors were
entirely real, i.e., the phase between DOFs was either 0 or 180o.
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For this type of damping, note that the modal vectors are
complex, so the phase between the DOFs is not 0 or 180o.
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Mode #2
Real