Hawassa University Institute of Technology School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ce 6505 - Structural Dynamics Assignment 1

HAWASSA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
CE 6505 - STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS

Assignment 1
1. The International Space Station has a docking platform to allow 2000 kg cargo capsules
crash-land head-on. When a cargo capsule hits the platform, powerful magnets
immediately lock the capsule attached to the landing platform shown in Fig P1. The
spring supporting the platform has a stiffness of 50 kN/m and is tied to the space station
with a connector that can resist up to 200 kN compressive force and 100 kN tensile force.
Assume that the landing platform and support spring have negligible mass and that there
is no energy dissipation in the system. What should be the limiting approach velocity for
the cargo capsules to avoid breaking the connector?
Figure P1
2. Assume that you are riding a bike on a road surface level which varies harmonically with
± 6 cm undulations about the level surface elsewhere. The distance between consecutive
peaks of these undulations is measured to be 2 m. Assume that all of the “suspension” in
your bike is thanks to two springs under the seat of your bike. When you sit on the seat of
your bike for your casual ride, the springs deflect 5 cm. When you are seated, the damper
under the seat provides an equivalent linear viscous damping of 10% of the critical
damping. A simple representation of your ride on the “never-ending” rough road is shown
in Figure P2
a. If you are riding your bicycle at a horizontal speed v of 2.5 m/sec, how much
bumping up and down will you experience? In other words, what is the maximum
vertical displacement you will experience?
b. On another bike ride, you are carrying a backpack which increases your on-seat
weight by 20%. Assuming that you are still able to ride at v = 2.5 m/sec, will this
“loaded” ride be more or less comfortable than your previous one, i.e. the ride without
the backpack?
Figure P2
3. The disc of torsional pendulum has a moment of inertia of 0.0678 kg m2 and is immersed
in a viscous fluid. The brass shaft (G = 41.1 GPa) attached to it is of 9.525 mm diameter
and 381 mm long. When the pendulum is vibrating, the observed amplitude on the same
side of the rest position for successive angles are 5o, 3o and 1.8o, Determine:
a. The logarithmic decrement
b. The damping torque at unit velocity
c. The periodic time of vibration and
d. The frequency of vibration if the disc were removed from the viscous fluid.
4. A motor supported by 5 m span simply supported beam has a flywheel whose center of
mass is 5 mm from the rotation axis. The mass of the stationary parts of the motor is 10
kg and the rotating parts have a mass of 1 kg; the mass of the beam is negligible. It is
known that the downward static deflection of the beam due to the weight of the motor is 2
mm. The beam is coated by a damping material that gives ζ =0.1. The flywheel rotates at
a constant speed of 675 rpm.
a. Determine the natural frequency of the system when the motor is turned off.
b. Determine the amplitude of steady state vibration of the beam at the working
frequency.
c. Determine the phase lag of the response relative to the excitation.
5. The shear frame shown in Fig. P5 is constructed of rigid girder and flexible columns. The
frame supports uniformly distributed load of total weight of 120 kN and the frame is
subjected to step force with a ramp as shown in Fig. P5 at the girder level. Determine the
horizontal displacement at t= 0.75 s. E= 200 GPa and damping can be assumed as zero.
Moment of inertia of end columns and center column are 3.4465×10–5 mm4 and 7.07×10–5
mm4, respectively.
Figure P5
6. For the rigid body system shown in Fig. P6

a. Formulate the equation of motion using the displacement of D as a generalized
coordinate z(t)
b. Determine the natural vibration frequency and damping ratio
c. Determine the displacement response u(x,t)
P(t) = Posin ωt
A B
Z(t) k Rigid uniform bar, mass = m
Rigid massless bar D E
k C
2L L L L
Fig. P6
7. By applying Rayleigh’s method determine the natural vibration frequency of the uniform
cantilever beam (mass & stiffness: ρ & EI) with an additional lumped mass (2m) and
supported by spring of stiffness k as shown in Fig. P7. Assume that the shape function is
given by the deflections due a single concentrated load applied at the free end.
Take ρ = m/L, i.e. ρ is the mass per unit length of the beam
Figure P7

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HAWASSA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

CE 6505 - STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS

6. For the rigid body system shown in Fig. P6

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