scholarly journals Revisited on the Free Vibration of a Cantilever Beam with an Asymmetrically Attached Tip Mass

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xiangsheng Lei ◽  
Yanfeng Wang ◽  
Xinghua Wang ◽  
Gang Lin ◽  
Shihong Shi

Cantilever with an asymmetrically attached tip mass arises in many engineering applications. Both the traditional method of separation of variables and the method of Laplace transform are employed in the present paper to solve the eigenvalue problem of the free vibration of such structures, and the effect of the eccentric distance along the vertical direction and the length direction of the tip mass is considered here. For the traditional method of separation of variables, tip mass only affects to the boundary conditions, and the eigenvalue problem of the free vibration is solved based on the nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. For the method of Laplace transform, the effect of the tip mass is introduced in the governing equation with the Dirac function, and the eigenvalue problem then can be solved through Laplace transform with homogeneous boundary conditions. The computed results with these two methods are compared well with the numerical solution obtained by finite element method and approximate analytical solutions, and the effect of tip mass dimensions on the natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes is also given.


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.



1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 820-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Huang ◽  
T. C. Huang

In a previous paper, the correspondence principle has been applied to derive the differential equations of motion of viscoelastic Timoshenko beams with or without external viscous damping. To study free vibrations these equations are solved by Laplace transform and boundary conditions are applied to obtain the attenuation factor and the frequency of the damped free vibrations and mode shapes. The present paper continues to analyze this subject and deals with the responses in deflection, bending slope, bending moment and shear for forced vibrations. Laplace transform and appropriate boundary conditions have been applied. Examples are given and results are plotted. The solution of forced vibrations of elastic Timoshenko beams obtained as a result of reduction from viscoelastic case and by eigenfunction expansion method concludes the paper.



Author(s):  
J-S Wu ◽  
H-M Chou ◽  
D-W Chen

The dynamic characteristic of a uniform rectangular plate with four boundary conditions and carrying three kinds of multiple concentrated element (rigidly attached point masses, linear springs and elastically mounted point masses) was investigated. Firstly, the closed-form solutions for the natural frequencies and the corresponding normal mode shapes of a rectangular ‘bare’ (or ‘unconstrained’) plate (without any attachments) with the specified boundary conditions were determined analytically. Next, by using these natural frequencies and normal mode shapes incorporated with the expansion theory, the equation of motion of the ‘constrained’ plate (carrying the three kinds of multiple concentrated element) were derived. Finally, numerical methods were used to solve this equation of motion to give the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the ‘constrained’ plate. To confirm the reliability of previous free vibration analysis results, a finite element analysis was also conducted. It was found that the results obtained from the above-mentioned two approaches were in good agreement. Compared with the conventional finite element method (FEM), the approach employed in this paper has the advantages of saving computing time and achieving better accuracy, as can be seen from the existing literature.



Author(s):  
A Hasani Baferani ◽  
A R Saidi ◽  
E Jomehzadeh

The aim of this article is to find an exact analytical solution for free vibration characteristics of thin functionally graded rectangular plates with different boundary conditions. The governing equations of motion are obtained based on the classical plate theory. Using an analytical method, three partial differential equations of motion are reformulated into two new decoupled equations. Based on the Navier solution, a closed-form solution is presented for natural frequencies of functionally graded simply supported rectangular plates. Then, considering Levy-type solution, natural frequencies of functionally graded plates are presented for various boundary conditions. Three mode shapes of a functionally graded rectangular plate are also presented for different boundary conditions. In addition, the effects of aspect ratio, thickness—length ratio, power law index, and boundary conditions on the vibration characteristics of functionally graded rectangular plates are discussed in details. Finally, it has been shown that the effects of in-plane displacements on natural frequencies of functionally graded plates under different boundary conditions have been studied.



2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.Y. Wang ◽  
C. M. Wang

This technical note is concerned with the free vibration problem of a cantilever beam with constant thickness and exponentially decaying width. Existing analytical results for such a vibration beam problem are found to be incomplete because lower frequencies could not be obtained. Presented herein is the exact characteristic equation for generating the complete vibration frequencies for the considered vibrating beam problem. Also the note treated for the first time such a tapered cantilever beam with a tip mass. The exact solutions (frequencies and mode shapes) are important to engineers designing such tapered beams and the results serve as benchmarks for assessing the validity, convergence and accuracy of numerical methods and solutions.



2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman ◽  
Waleed F. Faris ◽  
Ali H. Nayfeh

We present a numerical procedure to solve the axisymmetric vibration problem of statically loaded annular plates. We use the von Kármán nonlinear plate model to account for large deformations and study the effect of static deflections on the natural frequencies and mode shapes for six combinations of boundary conditions. The shooting method is used to solve the resulting eigenvalue problem. Our results show that static deformations have a significant effect on the natural frequencies and small effect on the mode shapes of the plate. Further, the results show that the presence of in-plane stresses has a significant effect on the natural frequencies.



Author(s):  
Gen Li ◽  
Yufeng Xing ◽  
Zekun Wang

For rectangular thick plates with non-Levy boundary conditions, it is important to explore analytical free vibration solutions because the classical inverse and semi-inverse exact solution methods are not applicable to this category of problems. This work is to develop an extended separation-of-variable (SOV) method to find closed-form analytical solutions for the free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates with arbitrary homogeneous boundary conditions. In the extended SOV method, characteristic differential equations and boundary conditions in two directions are obtained by employing the Rayleigh principle and the assumption that the mode functions are in the SOV form, and two transcendental eigenvalue equations are achieved through boundary conditions. But these two eigenvalue equations cannot be solved simultaneously since there are two equations and only the natural frequency is the unknown variable. Considering this, the second assumption in this method is that the natural frequencies corresponding to two-direction mode functions are independent of each other in the mathematical sense, thus there are two unknowns in two transcendental eigenvalue equations, and the closed-form solutions for plates with arbitrary boundary conditions can be obtained non-iteratively. From the physical sense, the natural frequencies pertaining to different direction mode functions should be the same, and this conclusion is validated analytically and numerically. The present natural frequencies and mode shapes agree well with those obtained by other analytical and numerical methods. Especially, for the plates with at least two opposite sides simply supported, the present solutions are exact.



Author(s):  
Xing Xing ◽  
Brian F. Feeny

This work represents an investigation of the complex modes of continuous vibration systems with nonmodal damping. As an example, a cantilevered beam with damping at the free end is studied. Traditional separation of variables for this problem leads to a differential eigenvalue problem which requires a numerical solution. In this paper, assumed modes are applied to discretize the eigenvalue problem in state-variable form, to then obtain estimates of the frequencies and modes. The finite-element method (FEM) is also utilized to get the mass, stiffness, and damping matrices and further to solve a state-variable eigenproblem. A comparison between the assumed-mode and finite-element eigenvalues and modal vectors shows that the methods produce consistent results. The comparison of the modes was done visually and also by using the modal assurance criterion (MAC) on the modal vectors. The assumed-mode method is then used to study the effects of the damping coefficient on mode shapes and modal damping.



Author(s):  
E. F. Joubaneh ◽  
O. R. Barry

This paper presents the free vibration analysis of a sandwich beam with a tip mass using higher order sandwich panel theory (HSAPT). The governing equations of motion and boundary conditions are obtained using Hamilton’s principle. General Differential Quadrature (GDQ) is employed to solve the system governing equations of motion. The natural frequencies and mode shapes of the system are presented and Ansys simulation is performed to validate the results. Various boundary conditions are also employed to examine the natural frequencies of the sandwich beam without tip mass and the results are compared with those found in the literature. Parametric studies are conducted to examine the effect of key design parameters on the natural frequencies of the sandwich beam with and without tip mass.



2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.11) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Arif Mat Norman ◽  
M Amiruddin Zainuddin ◽  
Jamaluddin Mahmud

This paper investigates the free vibration characteristics of laminate composite beam for various lamination schemes and under various boundary conditions. A beam model with the aspect ratio (length to thickness) of 25 to 150 made of carbon/ epoxy laminates under free vibration were constructed using a commercially available finite element software (ANSYS). The varied parameters are the lamination schemes (cross ply, angle ply and unidirectional ply) and boundary conditions (Clamp-Free (C-F), Clamp-Clamp (C-C), Clamp-Hanger (C-H), Free-Free (F-F) and Hanger-Hanger (H-H) ). For each case, finite element simulations were performed and the natural frequencies were determined. Mode shapes were also analyzed to observe the beam’s deformation behavior. Results showed that increasing aspect ratio will decrease natural frequencies for the first seven mode shapes. In terms of lamination scheme, the unidirectional ply produced the highest frequency (34.26 Hz), followed by cross ply (34.05 Hz) and angle ply (13.60 Hz) at the aspect ratio of 25. In terms of boundary conditions, the Hanger-Hanger boundary condition produced the highest natural frequency (2272.52  Hz) at the aspect ratio of 25, while Clamped-Free boundary condition produced the lowest frequency (2.28 Hz) at the aspect ratio of 150. In general, it can be concluded that the current study is useful and has contributed significant knowledge to better understand of effect of various fiber orientations and boundary conditions on the natural frequencies of laminated composite beam. 



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