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MEMORANDUM
DATE: September 11th, 2014

TO: A. W. Troesch, NA 540 Instructor
FROM: Claudio Farias de Lima, Engr.
RE: HW#02 Vibration-type equations of motion



This report aims to analyze two vibrations type motions. The first one is a case of a base excitation (moving
vehicle and its suspension) and the second one is a dynamic absorber and both of them are assumed to
be linear.

In the first case, we found that the amplitude of the mass in the trailer was empty and full is 4.04x10^(-2)
and 3.92X10^(-2) respectively.

In the second case, under certain conditions of m2 and k2 the motion of m1 can approach zero and the
motion of m2 becomes also small when the motions of m1 becomes small (see the graphics in page 6).

In this second case, the proposed fix just changed the frequency of resonance and we should consider
that the assumption of 2DOF is not a good way of modeling it.

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% NA540 - HW#02
% To: A.W. Troesch, NA540 Instructor
% From: Claudio Farias de Lima
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clc,clear all, close all;
r=0;
R1=0;
R2=0;
rx=0;
while r<=1.7
M=[(-r.^2+1.3),-0.3;-0.3,(-0.3*r.^2+0.3)];
Minv=inv(M);
RESP=Minv*[1;0];
r=r+0.0001;
R1=[R1 abs(RESP(1))];
R2=[R2 abs(RESP(2))];
rx=[rx r];
end
CAT=[rx;R1;R2]';
plot(rx,R1)
hold on
xlabel r;
ylabel |k*X1~/Fo|;
title 'Response Curve for m1';
hold off
figure
plot(rx,R2)
hold on
xlabel r;
ylabel |k*X2~/Fo|;
title 'Response Curve for m2';
hold off