scholarly journals Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Mechanically Coupled Microbeam Resonators with an Application to Micromechanical Filters

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashar K. Hammad

We present a methodology to calculate analytically the mode shapes and corresponding frequencies of mechanically coupled microbeam resonators. To demonstrate the methodology, we analyze a mechanical filter composed of two beams coupled by a weak beam. The boundary-value problem (BVP) for the linear vibration problem of the coupled beams depends on the number of beams and the boundary conditions of the attachment points. This implies that the system of linear homogeneous algebraic equations becomes larger as the array of resonators becomes complicated. We suggest a method to reduce the large system of equations into a smaller system. We reduce the BVP composed of five equations and twenty boundary conditions to a set of three linear homogeneous algebraic equations for three constants and the frequencies. This methodology can be simply extended to accommodate any configuration of mechanically coupled arrays. To validate our methodology, we compare our analytical results to these obtained numerically using ANSYS. We found that the agreement is excellent. We note that the weak coupling beam splits the frequency of the single resonator into two close frequencies. In addition, the effect of the coupling beam location on the natural frequencies, and hence the filter behavior, is investigated.

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Desmond Adair ◽  
Aigul Nagimova ◽  
Martin Jaeger

The vibration characteristics of a nonuniform, flexible and free-flying slender rocket experiencing constant thrust is investigated. The rocket is idealized as a classic nonuniform beam with a constant one-dimensional follower force and with free-free boundary conditions. The equations of motion are derived by applying the extended Hamilton’s principle for non-conservative systems. Natural frequencies and associated mode shapes of the rocket are determined using the relatively efficient and accurate Adomian modified decomposition method (AMDM) with the solutions obtained by solving a set of algebraic equations with only three unknown parameters. The method can easily be extended to obtain approximate solutions to vibration problems for any type of nonuniform beam.


Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
O. Gu¨vendik ◽  
V. O¨zerciyes

In this present study, the “Free Bending Vibrations of a Centrally Bonded Symmetric Double Lap Joint (or Symmetric Double Doubler Joint) with a Gap in Mindlin Plates or Panels” are theoretically analyzed and are numerically solved in some detail. The “plate adherends” and the upper and lower “doubler plates” of the “Bonded Joint” system are considered as dissimilar, orthotropic “Mindlin Plates” joined through the dissimilar upper and lower very thin adhesive layers. There is a symmetrically and centrally located “Gap” between the “plate adherends” of the joint system. In the “adherends” and the “doublers” of the “Bonded Joint” assembly, the transverse shear deformations and the transverse and rotary moments of inertia are included in the analysis. The relatively very thin adhesive layers are assumed to be linearly elastic continua with transverse normal and shear stresses. The “damping effects” in the entire “Bonded Joint” system are neglected. The sets of the dynamic “Mindlin Plate” equations of the “plate adherends”, the “double doubler plates” and the thin adhesive layers are combined together with the orthotropic stress resultant-displacement expressions in a “special form”. This system of equations, after some further manipulations, is eventually reduced to a set of the “Governing System of the First Order Ordinary Differential Equations” in terms of the “state vectors” of the problem. Hence, the final set of the aforementioned “Governing Systems of Equations” together with the “Continuity Conditions” and the “Boundary conditions” facilitate the present solution procedure. This is the “Modified Transfer Matrix Method (MTMM) (with Interpolation Polynomials). The present theoretical formulation and the method of solution are applied to a typical “Bonded Symmetric Double Lap Joint (or Symmetric Double Doubler Joint) with a Gap”. The effects of the relatively stiff (or “hard”) and the relatively flexible (or “soft”) adhesive properties, on the natural frequencies and mode shapes are considered in detail. The very interesting mode shapes with their dimensionless natural frequencies are presented for various sets of boundary conditions. Also, several parametric studies of the dimensionless natural frequencies of the entire system are graphically presented. From the numerical results obtained, some important conclusions are drawn for the “Bonded Joint System” studied here.


1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moon K. Kwak

This paper is concerned with the virtual mass effect on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of rectangular plates due to the presence of the water on one side of the plate. The approximate formula, which mainly depends on the so-called nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor, can be used to estimate natural frequencies in water from natural frequencies in vacuo. However, the approximate formula is valid only when the wet mode shapes are almost the same as the one in vacuo. Moreover, the nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor is in general a function of geometry, material properties of the plate and mostly boundary conditions of the plate and water domain. In this paper, the added virtual mass incremental factors for rectangular plates are obtained using the Rayleigh-Ritz method combined with the Green function method. Two cases of interfacing boundary conditions, which are free-surface and rigid-wall conditions, and two cases of plate boundary conditions, simply supported and clamped cases, are considered in this paper. It is found that the theoretical results match the experimental results. To investigate the validity of the approximate formula, the exact natural frequencies and mode shapes in water are calculated by means of the virtual added mass matrix. It is found that the approximate formula predicts lower natural frequencies in water with a very good accuracy.


1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (2S) ◽  
pp. S197-S204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Wu-Zheng Zu ◽  
Ray P. S. Han

A free flexural vibrations of a spinning, finite Timoshenko beam for the six classical boundary conditions are analytically solved and presented for the first time. Expressions for computing natural frequencies and mode shapes are given. Numerical simulation studies show that the simply-supported beam possesses very peculiar free vibration characteristics: There exist two sets of natural frequencies corresponding to each mode shape, and the forward and backward precession mode shapes of each set coincide identically. These phenomena are not observed in beams with the other five types of boundary conditions. In these cases, the forward and backward precessions are different, implying that each natural frequency corresponds to a single mode shape.


Author(s):  
Ehsan Arshid ◽  
Ali Kiani ◽  
Saeed Amir

The vibration analysis of an annular plate made up of functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic materials subjected to multi physical loads is presented. The plate is in thermal environment and temperature is distributed non-uniformly in its thickness direction. In addition, the plate is assumed moderately thick, the material properties vary through the thickness, and the exact neutral surface position is determined and took into account. According to Hamilton’s principle and the first-order shear deformation theory, the governing motion equations are extracted. Numerical results for various boundary conditions are obtained via the generalized differential quadrature method and are validated in simpler states with those of the literature. The effects of different parameters such as material property gradient index, multi physical loads, temperature variations, boundary conditions and geometric specifications of the plate on the natural frequencies and mode shapes are investigated. Temperature changes have little effect on the natural frequencies and the effect of electric potential on them is opposite of magnetic one. In other words, by increasing the magnetic potential, the rigidity of the plate increases too, and the frequency increases. The results of this study are useful to design more efficient sensors and actuators used in the smart or intelligent structures.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meixia Chen ◽  
Jianhui Wei ◽  
Kun Xie ◽  
Naiqi Deng ◽  
Guoxiang Hou

Wave based method which can be recognized as a semi-analytical and semi-numerical method is presented to analyze the free vibration characteristics of ring stiffened cylindrical shell with intermediate large frame ribs for arbitrary boundary conditions. According to the structure type and the positions of discontinuities, the model is divided into different substructures whose vibration field is expanded by wave functions which are exactly analytical solutions to the governing equations of the motions of corresponding structure type. Boundary conditions and continuity equations between different substructures are used to form the final matrix to be solved. Natural frequencies and vibration mode shapes are calculated by wave based method and the results show good agreement with finite element method for clamped-clamped, shear diaphragm – shear diaphragm and free-free boundary conditions. Free vibration characteristics of ring stiffened cylindrical shells with intermediate large frame ribs are compared with those with bulkheads and those with all ordinary ribs. Effects of the size, the number and the distribution of intermediate large frame rib are investigated. The frame rib which is large enough is playing a role as bulkhead, which can be considered imposing simply supported and clamped constraints at one end of the cabin and dividing the cylindrical shell into several cabins vibrating separately at their own natural frequencies.


Author(s):  
Bashar K. Hammad ◽  
Ali H. Nayfeh ◽  
Eihab Abdel-Rahman

We present a reduced-order model and closed-form expressions describing the response of a micromechanical filter made up of two clamped-clamped microbeam capacitive resonators coupled by a weak microbeam. The model accounts for geometrical and electrical nonlinearities as well as the coupling between them. It is obtained by discretizing the distributed-parameter system using the Galerkin procedure. The basis functions are the linear undamped global mode shapes of the unactuated filter. Closed-form expressions for these mode shapes and the coressponding natural frequencies are obtained by formulating a boundary-value problem (BVP) that is composed of five equations and twenty boundary conditions. This problem is transformed into solving a system of twenty linear homogeneous algebraic equations for twenty constants and the natural frequencies. We predict the deflection and the voltage at which the static pull-in occurs by solving another boundary-value problem (BVP). We also solve an eigenvalue problem (EVP) to determine the two natural frequencies delineating the bandwidth of the actuated filter. Using the method of multiple scales, we determine four first-order nonlinear ODEs describing the amplitudes and phases of the modes. We found a good agreement between the results obtained using our model and the published experimental results. We found that the filter can be tuned to operate linearly for a wide range of input signal strengths by choosing a DC voltage that makes the effective nonlinearities vanish.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma’en S. Sari ◽  
Wael G. Al-Kouz ◽  
Anas M. Atieh

The natural vibration behavior of axially functionally graded (AFG) double nanobeams is studied based on the Euler–Bernoulli beam and Eringen’s non-local elasticity theory. The double nanobeams are continuously connected by a layer of linear springs. The oscillatory differential equation of motion is established using the Hamilton’s principle and the constitutive relations. The Chebyshev spectral collocation method (CSCM) is used to transform the coupled governing differential equations of motion into algebraic equations. The discretized boundary conditions are used to modify the Chebyshev differentiation matrices, and the system of equations is put in the matrix-vector form. Then, the dimensionless transverse frequencies and the mode shapes are obtained by solving the standard eigenvalue problem. The effects of the coupling springs, Winkler stiffness, the shear stiffness parameter, the breadth and taper ratios, the small-scale parameter, and the boundary conditions on the natural transverse frequencies are carried out. Several numerical examples were conducted, and the authors believe that the results may be interesting in designing and analyzing double and multiple one-dimensional nano structures.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
F. Toghi ◽  
O. Tekinalp

This study is concerned with the free bending vibrations of two rectangular, orthotropic plates connected by an adhesively bonded lap joint. The influence of shear deformation and rotatory inertia in plates are taken into account in the equations according to the Mindlin plate theory. The effects of both thickness and shear deformations in the thin adhesive layer are included in the formulation. Plates are assumed to have simply supported boundary conditions at two opposite edges. However, any boundary conditions can be prescribed at the other two edges. First, equations of motion at the overlap region are derived. Then, a Levy-type solution for displacements and stress resultants are used to formulate the problem in terms of a system of first order ordinary differential equations. A revised version of the Transfer Matrix Method together with the boundary and continuity conditions are used to obtain the frequency equation of the system. The natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes are obtained for identical and dissimilar adherends with different boundary conditions. The effects of some parameters on the natural frequencies are studied and plotted.


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