ENME538 | ADVANCED DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS

Balancing of rigid rotors, single plane and two-plane balancing, analytical and experimental field balancing methods, balancing of reciprocating machines, single cylinder shaking forces, multicylinder engines and compressors of different configurations, vibration of single-mass systems, free vibration characteristics, harmonic forcing, frequency response functions, applications to vibration isolation and transmissibility, shaft whirl, and vibration transducer, Fourier series solutions for periodic forcing, multi-mass systems, frequencies and modes for undamped systems, matrix methods, orthogonality of modes and iteration methods, beam and shaft vibration, Euler’s equation, frequencies and modes for classical boundary conditions, critical speeds of shafts