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Mechanical Vibrations: Fall 2016

The document discusses a lecture on mechanical vibrations that covers nonlinear springs. It begins by reviewing the previous lecture on fundamentals of vibrations including elements of vibrating systems and classification. The current lecture then discusses examples of finding equivalent spring constants for series, parallel and structural members. It introduces the concept of nonlinear springs and how springs can be linearized around a working point when deformation is small. The lecture notes explain that while nonlinear problems generally require numerical methods, this course will deal with linear springs for analytical solutions. It provides an example of linearizing a nonlinear spring function by approximating the dependency with a straight line by neglecting higher order terms.

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Mechanical Vibrations: Fall 2016

The document discusses a lecture on mechanical vibrations that covers nonlinear springs. It begins by reviewing the previous lecture on fundamentals of vibrations including elements of vibrating systems and classification. The current lecture then discusses examples of finding equivalent spring constants for series, parallel and structural members. It introduces the concept of nonlinear springs and how springs can be linearized around a working point when deformation is small. The lecture notes explain that while nonlinear problems generally require numerical methods, this course will deal with linear springs for analytical solutions. It provides an example of linearizing a nonlinear spring function by approximating the dependency with a straight line by neglecting higher order terms.

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ME-475

Mechanical Vibrations
Fall 2016

Department of Mechanical Engineering


University of Engineering and Technology Lahore

Lecture 2

Last Time:

Started Chapter 1, Fundamentals of Vibrations

Elements of a vibrating system (elastic, inertia and friction/viscosity)


Degrees of freedom and Discrete Vs Continuous systems
Classification of vibration
Vibration analysis procedure
Springs

Today:

Examples of finding equivalent spring constant

Series, parallel and structural members

Non-Linear Springs

Nonlinear Springs

What if you are dealing with nonlinear springs?

Springs can be linearized about a working point


Works only when the deformation of the spring is small (because you
linearize about a point)

This idea of linearization goes beyond linearizing springs, you can apply
it to any non-linear function
Do you always have to linearize?

No, but we may not be able to obtain analytical solution if do not linearize

Solution would need numerical methods

In this course we will deal with linear springs


3

Function Linearization: how to get it

We like linear functions. How do we get one?

Intuitively: approximate the dependency through a straight line

A non-linear spring

How to linearize a non-linear spring?


Mathematically

Neglecting higher order terms leaves us with:

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