ASSIGNMENT 2

BDC 4013 NOISE & VIBRATION SEM I 2010/2011 Please submit the completed assignment to my office (C16-101-06) no later than FRIDAY, 5TH OF NOVEMBER 2010

Assignment: The pipe carrying feedwater to a boiler in a thermal power plant has been found to vibrate violently at a pump speed of 800 rpm. In order to reduce the vibrations, an absorber consisting of a spring of stiffness k2 and a trial mass m2 of 1 kg is attached to the pipe. This arrangement is found to give the natural frequencies of the system as 750 rpm and 1000 rpm. It is desired to keep the natural frequencies of the system outside the operating speed range of the pump, which is 700 rpm to 1040 rpm. Determine the values of k2 and m2 that satisfy this requirement.

Hint: Useful equations m [ 2 1  1  2 2 s m1 [1 m 1  1  2 m1 [ 2 2 [ 1

2

;1 [ 2

; , 2 ! [ 2

[ 2 [ 1

2 [2  4 [ 1

and k 2 k 2 m2 m1 m2 ! ! k1 m2 m1 k1 m1 [2 [ 1
2

Please refer to Mechanical Vibrations book by Singiresu S. Rao for more information regarding this assignment.