1. The document is an exam for a course on mechanical vibrations. It contains 6 questions regarding mechanical vibrational systems, natural frequencies, damping, and using absorbers to reduce vibrations.
2. The questions involve calculating natural frequencies and displacements of single-degree-of-freedom spring-mass and rotor-shaft systems, determining phase differences between vibrations, and sizing an absorber to reduce vibrations in a system.
3. The document provides various data, equations, and diagrams to aid in solving the 6 questions regarding mechanical vibration analysis.
1. The document is an exam for a course on mechanical vibrations. It contains 6 questions regarding mechanical vibrational systems, natural frequencies, damping, and using absorbers to reduce vibrations.
2. The questions involve calculating natural frequencies and displacements of single-degree-of-freedom spring-mass and rotor-shaft systems, determining phase differences between vibrations, and sizing an absorber to reduce vibrations in a system.
3. The document provides various data, equations, and diagrams to aid in solving the 6 questions regarding mechanical vibration analysis.
1. The document is an exam for a course on mechanical vibrations. It contains 6 questions regarding mechanical vibrational systems, natural frequencies, damping, and using absorbers to reduce vibrations.
2. The questions involve calculating natural frequencies and displacements of single-degree-of-freedom spring-mass and rotor-shaft systems, determining phase differences between vibrations, and sizing an absorber to reduce vibrations in a system.
3. The document provides various data, equations, and diagrams to aid in solving the 6 questions regarding mechanical vibration analysis.
1. The document is an exam for a course on mechanical vibrations. It contains 6 questions regarding mechanical vibrational systems, natural frequencies, damping, and using absorbers to reduce vibrations.
2. The questions involve calculating natural frequencies and displacements of single-degree-of-freedom spring-mass and rotor-shaft systems, determining phase differences between vibrations, and sizing an absorber to reduce vibrations in a system.
3. The document provides various data, equations, and diagrams to aid in solving the 6 questions regarding mechanical vibration analysis.
Instructions: 1- Answer all questions and show all the calculations you do. 2- Write neatly and clearly and cross out any work you do not wish to be considered. 3- Underline the final answer very clearly 4- Take gravitational acceleration 9.81 m/s2. 5- All questions carry equal marks.
Question no 1 In the system shown below write down the equation of motion and find the natural frequency for the values of m = 2 kg, k = 500 N/m, J0 = 0.08 kg.m2, r = 10 cm.
Question no 2 The rotor of a dial indicator is connected to a torsional spring and a torsional viscous damper to form a single-degree-of-freedom torsional system. The scale is graduated in equal divisions, and the equilibrium position of the rotor corresponds to zero on the scale. When a torque of 2x10-3 N.m is applied, the angular displacement of the rotor is found to be 50 ° with the pointer showing 80 divisions on the scale. When the rotor is released from this position, the pointer swings first to -20 divisions in one second and then to 5 divisions in another second. Find (a) the undamped natural periodic time of the rotor. (b) the torsional spring stiffness. (c) the mass moment of inertia of the rotor. (d) the torsional damping constant.
Page 1 of 3 Question no 3 A heavy LCD computer monitor, having a mass of 8.5 kg is supported by a very lightweight stand having a (cantilever) stiffness of 755 N/m and effective damping of ς = 0.15. The monitor sits on a desk on an upper floor of a building close to a railway track. Vibrations created by passing trains cause the floor to sway (vibrate horizontally) at a frequency of 1.5 Hz, which also causes the monitor to sway. Since the desk is very rigid, the base of the stand, the desk, and the floor all move together as given by y(t). If the monitor’s vibration with respect to the floor (i.e., z(t) = x(t)-y(t)) has an amplitude of 10 mm, what is: a. the amplitude of vibration of the floor? b. the phase difference between the floor vibration and the monitor vibration?
Question no 4 A centrifugal pump, weighing 600 N and operating at 1000 rpm, is mounted on six springs of stiffness 6000 N/m each. Find the maximum permissible unbalance in order to limit the steady-state deflection to 5 mm peak-to-peak.
Question no 5 A centrifugal pump has a mas m1, and having an unbalance of me, is supported on a rigid foundation of mass m2 through isolator springs of stiffness k1, as shown below. If the soil stiffness is k2, and speed of the pump is 1200 rpm, determine: a) The natural frequencies of the system b) The displacement (response) of the pump and the foundation for the following data: m = 0.2 kg, e = 150 mm, m1= 360 kg, k1=350255 N/m, m2= 907 kg, k2=175127 N/m.
Page 2 of 3 Question no 6
A rotor, having a mass moment of inertia J1 = 15 kg.m2, is mounted at the end of a steel shaft having a torsional stiffness of 0.6 MN.m/rad. The rotor is found to vibrate violently when subjected to a harmonic torque of 300 cos (200 t) N.m. A tuned absorber, consisting of a torsional spring and a mass moment of inertia (kt2 and J2), is to be attached to the first rotor to absorb the vibrations. Find the values of kt2 and J2 such that the natural frequencies of the system are away from the forcing frequency by at least 20 percent.
