DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(Session: 2019-20)
BLOWN UP SYLLABUS
Name of the Subject : MV (Mechanical Vibrations)
Branch / Semester : ME / VI Semester
Name of the Faculty : Chhagan Kharol
S.
Unit Topic as per Syllabus
No.
Introduction to Sound: Frequency
dependent human response to sound,
Sound pressure dependent human
response, Relationship among sound
power, sound intensity and sound
pressure level.
Introduction to Noise: Auditory and
Non auditory effects of Noise, Major
01. Unit - I sources of the noise, Industrial noise
sources, and Industrial noise control
strategies.
Introduction to Vibration: Importance
and scope of vibrations, terminology
and classification, Concept of Degrees
of freedom, Harmonic motion,
vectorial representation, complex
number representation, addition.
02. Unit - II Undamped Single Degree of Freedom
System: Derivation of equation of
motion for one dimensional
longitudinal, transverse and torsional
vibrations without damping using
Newton’s second law, D’ Alembert’s
principle and Principle of conservation
of energy, Compound pendulum and
centre of percussion.
Damped vibrations of single degree of
freedom systems: Viscous damping,
under-damped, critically damped and
over-damped systems, Logarithmic
decrement.
Subject Code : 6ME4-03
Section(s) : N/A
Designation : Asst. Professor
Blown Up Topics
Vibration, main causes,
advantages and disadvantages;
engineering
applications of vibration and noise;
vector method of representing harmonic
motion;
characteristics of vibration,
harmonic analysis and beats
phenomenon,
work done by harmonic forces on
harmonic motion; periodic, non-
harmonic functions-
Fourier series analysis;
Evaluation of coefficients of Fourier
series;
Elements of vibratory system; lumped
and distributed parameter systems..
Introduction to Noise: Auditory and
Non auditory effects of Noise, Major
sources of the noise,
Industrial noise sources, Industrial noise
control strategies.
Undamped Free Vibrations:
Derivation of differential equation of
motion:
the energy method,
the method based on Newton’s second
law of motion, and
Rayleigh’s method.
Solution of differential equation of
motion:
Natural frequency of vibration.
Systems involving angular oscillations:
the compound pendulum
Damped Free Vibrations:
Viscous damping:

Vibration characteristics of Coulomb
damped system and Vibration
characteristics of Hysteretic damped
systems.
Forced Vibrations of Single Degree of
Freedom Systems: Forced vibration
with constant harmonic excitation,
Steady state and transient parts,
Frequency response curves and phase
angle plot, Forced vibration due to
03. Unit - III excitation of support.
Vibration Isolation and
Transmissibility: Force
transmissibility, Motion
transmissibility, Forced vibration with
rotating and reciprocating unbalance,
Materials used in vibration isolation.
System with Two Degrees of Freedom:
principle mode of vibration, Mode
shapes, Undamped forced vibrations of
two degrees of freedom system with
harmonic excitation, Vibration
Absorber, Undamped dynamic
04. Unit - IV
vibration absorber and centrifugal
pendulum absorber
Critical Speed of Shaft: Critical speed
of a light shaft without damping,
critical speed of shaft having multiple
discs, secondary critical speed.
05. Unit - V Many Degrees of Freedom Systems
(Exact analysis): Equation of Motion,
The matrix method, Eigen Values and
Eigen Vectors, Method of influence
Coefficients and Maxwell’s reciprocal
theorem. Torsional vibrations of multi
rotor system, vibrations of geared
Coefficient of damping;
damping ratio;
under damped,
over damped and
critically damped systems;
logarithmic decrement;
frequency of damped free vibration;
Coulomb or dry friction damping;
frequency, decay rate and comparison
of viscous and Coulomb damping;
solid and structural damping;
Slip or interfacial damping.
One degree of freedom-
forced harmonic vibration;
vector representation of forces;
excitation due to rotating and
reciprocating unbalance;
vibration Isolation, force and motion
transmissibility;
Absolute and relative motion of mass
(Seismic Instruments).
Whirling motion and Critical speed :
Definitions and significance.
Critical speed of a vertical ,
Light flexible shaft with single rotor :
with and without damping .
Critical speed of a shaft carrying
multiple discs (without damping ),
Secondary critical speed.
System with Two Degrees of Freedom:
principle mode of vibration,
Mode shapes,
Undamped forced vibrations of two
degrees of freedom system with
harmonic excitation,
Vibration Absorber,
Undamped dynamic vibration absorber
and centrifugal pendulum absorber
Critical Speed of Shaft:
Critical speed of a light shaft without
damping,
critical speed of shaft having multiple
discs,
Secondary critical speed.
Many Degrees of Freedom Systems
(Exact analysis):
Equation of Motion,
The matrix method,
Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors,
Method of influence Coefficients and
Maxwell’s reciprocal theorem.

system, Generalized coordinates and
coordinate coupling Many Degrees of
Freedom Systems (approximate
methods): Rayleigh’s, Dunkerley’s,
Stodola’s and Holzer’s methods
Vibrations of continuous systems:
Transverse vibration of a string,
Longitudinal vibration of a bar,
Torsional vibration of a shaft.
Torsional vibrations of multi rotor
system,
vibrations of geared system,
Generalized coordinates and coordinate
coupling
Many Degrees of Freedom Systems
(approximate methods):
Rayleigh’s, Dunkerley’s, Stodola’s and
Holzer’s methods
Vibrations of continuous systems:
Transverse vibration of a string,
Longitudinal vibration of a bar,
Torsional vibration of a shaft.
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