ME 417- Mechanical Vibrations

1st Lecture
Spring 2015
Babar Khan
What is Vibration?
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in
terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Nikola Tesla.
Sound, light, earth quake, bomb blast.
Why study vibration?
The purpose of any scientific study is to manipulate the
nature.
Resonance and flutter.
How?
Conversion of potential energy and kinetic energy in to
each other.
Addition of external energy.
Derivation of equation of motion.
Natural frequencies of the system.
Change in behavior of system w.r.t certain key variables.
Review of Old concepts
Degrees of freedom
Differential equations
Complex numbers
Degrees of freedom
The number of independent motions that a body can
perform.
Degrees of freedom
A rigid body has maximum 6 DOF in 3D space.
But a system of bodies attached to each other can have
more than 6DOF.
In that case DOF represents the number of individual
parameters required to solve the system.
Haptic Exoskeleton!
Differential equations
Any equation involving derivatives:

The above equation is a linear, homogenous, ordinary

differential equation.

The above equation is non linear, non homogenous,

ODE.
What is this?
Differential equations
Partial differential equations:

Occurring in2DOF or above systems.

Complex Numbers
When solution involves
square root of a ve number.

Vectorial representation:
Complex Numbers

z = r(cos + isin)

The above equation just shows that

the point z is formed of horizontal
and vertical components of r.
It can also be written as :

Proof in next slide.

Eulers Formula

Taylors series expansion of the exponential: