ALGEBRAIC METHODS FOR CALCULATING BRANCHED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS FOR FORCED OSCILLATIONS
Parallel-serial and serial-parallel connections of consumers of mechanical power are considered. According to the known parameters of systems and the disturbing harmonic effect, the velocities of the elements of mechanical systems and the forces applied to them are algebraically determined. A comprehensive representation of harmonic and related quantities is used. This approach is widely used in electrical engineering. For the considered branched mechanical schemes, the classical methods based on the solution of second-order differential equations become many times more complicated and require the solution of systems of equations, which are reduced to higher-order differential equations. The use of a symbolic (complex) description of mechanical processes and systems makes it possible to use instead simple and compact algebraic methods, the complexity of which is ten times less.