Assignment-2

1. The natural frequency of vibration of a person is found to be 5.2 Hz while standing on a

horizontal floor. Assuming damping to be negligible, determine the following:
a. If the weight of the person is 70 Kg, determine the equivalent stiffness of his body in the
vertical direction.
b. If the floor is subjected to a vertical harmonic vibration of frequency of 5.3 Hz and
amplitude of 0.1 m due to an unbalanced rotating machine operating on the floor, determine
the vertical displacement of the person.
2. A hollow steel shaft, of length 100 cm, outer diameter 4 cm, and inner diameter 3.5 cm,
carries the rotor of a turbine, weighing 500 N, at the middle and is supported at the ends in
bearings. The clearance between the rotor and the stator is 0.5 cm The rotor has an
eccentricity equivalent to a weight of 0.5 N at a radius of 2 cm. A limit switch is installed to
stop the rotor whenever the rotor touches the stator. If the rotor operates at resonance, how
long will it take to activate the limit switch? Assume the initial displacement and velocity of
the rotor perpendicular to the shaft to be zero.
3. A spring-mass-damper system is subjected to a harmonic force. The amplitude is found to
be 20 mm at resonance and 10 mm at a frequency 0.75 times the resonant frequency. Find the
damping ratio of the system.
4. A video camera, of mass 2.0 kg, is mounted on the top of a bank building for surveillance.
The video camera is fixed at one end of a tubular aluminum rod whose other end is fixed to
the building as shown in Fig. below. The wind-induced force acting on the video camera,
f(t), is found to be harmonic with 25cos75.39t N. Determine the cross-sectional
dimensions of the aluminum tube if the maximum amplitude of vibration of the video camera
is to be limited to 0.005 m.

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5. A spring-mass system with mass 25Kg and k=10 kN/m vibrates on a horizontal surface with
coefficient of friction = 0.3. Under a harmonic force of frequency 8 Hz, the steady state vibration of
the mass is found to be 0.2 m. Determine the equivalent viscous-damping constant of the system.
6. A spring-mass system is subjected to Coulomb damping. When a harmonic force of amplitude 120
N and frequency 2.51 Hz is applied, the system is found to oscillate with an amplitude of 75 mm.
Determine the coefficient of dry friction if m=2kg and k=2100N/m.
7. A spring-mass system consists of a mass weighing 100 N and a spring with a stiffness of 2000 N/m.
The mass is subjected to resonance by a harmonic force

Find the amplitude of the forced motion at the end of (a) cycle, (b) 5/2 cycles, and (c) 23/4 cycles.