Lab 5:

Vibration of a Cantilever Beam

03/08/2007

Group Generic
Christian Giron
Terrance Farrell
Craig Honeycutt


Abstact:
In this lab, we took a cantilevered beam and found the resonate frequency at which it
vibrated. After finding the resonate frequency, we applied Dynamat to see whether or
not adding a single strip, or two strips would affect the resonate frequency of the beam.
Summary:

During this experiment we tested the differences in beam vibration between an
undamped beam, a beam with Dynamat on one side and then a beam with Dynamat
on both sides. After comparing results, we used

Results:

The results show that the effects of the Dynamat on a cantilevered beam are
insignificant. The dampening effect of the Dynamat may have worked on the vibration
of the beam, but the additional weight of the Dynamat may have cancelled that
dampening effect.

Table1: Comparison of measured and calculated undamped natural frequencies.

Calculated Experimental

1
(rad/s) 15.9368 15.13

f
1
(cycles/s) 17.88401 15.39

T
1
(s) 0.055916 0.065


Table2: Comparison of damped/undamped natural frequency
Undamped Damped

1
(rad/s) 96.7 93.9312407
f
1
(cycles/s) 15.388288 14.94768312
T
1
(s) 0.0649845 0.0669

We found a value of 0.20635 for the undamped motion, while the lower
value 0.105527 was determined for the damped motion.

Conclusion:

From this experiment we found that Dynamat has little effect on a vibrating
cantilever beam. Though we did not test out theory, we believe Dynamat would be
must more effective on a beam fixed at both ends. This theory stems from noticing that
the extra mass added by the Dynamat is able to affect the acceleration of the free
hanging end causing high deflection and thereby reducing the vibration dampening
abilities of the Dynamat.

Appendices

Data:

Length of beam (in) L1 23 E (psi) 3.00E+07
Length of beam (in) L2 21.7 mass per unit length (lb/in) 0.077074
Average Length (in) L 22.35

(rad/s) 112.3831
base of beam (in) b 1.012
height of beam (in) h 0.272 f
1
(cycles/s) 17.88401
Moment of Inertia (in
4
) I 0.00169709 T
1
(s) 0.055916

Fig.1 First natural frequency and period of beam


Set 1

measured
1
(rad/s) 96.7 0.087
measured f
1
(cycles/s) 15.38829
measured T
1
(s) 0.064984
ratio
0.013843
peak to peak 2.4
amplitude 2.2
constant
0.20635

Set 2 (tape added to beam)

measured
1
(rad/s) 93.93124 0.0458
measured f
1
(cycles/s) 14.94768
measured T
1
(s) 0.0669
ratio
0.007288
peak to peak 2.68
amplitude 2.56
constant
0.105527

Set 3 (tape added to beam)

measured
1
(rad/s) 93.93124 0.1032
measured f
1
(cycles/s) 14.94768
measured T
1
(s) 0.0669
ratio
0.01642
peak to peak 4.08
amplitude 3.68
constant
0.237757

Fig.2 Measured values of damped and undamped frequencies
Sample Calculations

Moment of Inertia (I)

1/12*(base of beam*height of beam)

Mass per unit length (m)

0.28*base of beam*height of beam

Natural frequency of the beam (w1)

1.875^2*{(modulus of elasticity*moment of inertia)/(mass per unit length*beam_length^4)}^0.5

Frequency (f)

Natural frequency (f)/ 2*PI

Period (T)

1/f

Log decrement

Natural log (Peak to peak value/Amplitude)

Damping Ratio

Log decrement/(square root(4*pi^2+log decrement^2))

Damping Constant

2*mass per unit length*natural frequency*damping rate