Title of the project

Vibrational analysis of cracked shaft

Mathematical equations

From Dunkerley’s empirical formula, the frequency of transverse vibration

A =area of crack

R=radius of crack=4.75mm

V = volume of crack

w=width of crack = 2mm

m=mass of the specimen

density = 7850 kg/m^3

V=volume

This formulae is for deflection calculation

E = young modulus = 200e9 pascal

Deflection = 2.5mm

Putting the values of these parameters in the Dunkerleys empirical formulae we have

F=0.0150186 Hz

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Simulation steps

1. Design of the geometry(assembly) in solid work.

2. Import the file of solid work in the comsol

Figure I : importing of assembly

3. Add the material to the component (structural steel)

Figure II : material selection

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4. Define the mesh size i.e. normal

Figure III : creating mesh

5. Set the eigen frequency near to 0.015086 Hz and compute the simulation. This simulation
is carried out for the specimen of longitudinal crack from the left end at 100mm.

Figure IV : computing for set frequency

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Result and comparison
From simulation the result shows that there is total deflection of around 3mm for the frequency
of 0.0150186. but he value concluded from the theoretical calculation were deflection of 2.5 mm
corresponding to frequency of 0.0150186.

Relative error
ǀ𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 −𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑_𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒ǀ
Relative_error= 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙_𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒

ǀ2.5−3ǀ
Relative_error= 2.5

Relative_error=0.2

Reason

Difference is due to the application of load we have not applied loads accurately so there is error
in the observation.

Reference

Ameyaw, D. A. (2015). Crack Detection in Shaft Using Vibration Measurements and Analysis.

Grunwald, B. (2018). "Vibration analysis of shaft in SolidWorks and ANSYS."

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 Project Report{assignment # 3}

Mechanical vibration
Submitted to:

Sir Khawar Hussain

Submitted by:
Muhammad Abdullah FA16-BME-B12-058-B
Muhammad Ateeq FA16-BME-B12-064-B
Asad Ali FA16-BME-B12-022-B
Umar Abdullah FA16-BME-B12-108-B
Hafiz Hamad Riaz FA16-BME-B12-034-B
Hamza Saleem FA16-BME-B12-160-A
Kamran Maqbool FA16-BME-B12-088-A
Muhammad Ahmad FA16-BME-B12-060-B
Syed Zubair Shah FA16-BME-B12-126-B
Hamza Snober FA16-BME-B12-082 -A
Department of Mechanical Engineering
COMSATS University Islamabad , Sahiwal
Campus