ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-DEGREE OF FREEDOM VIBRATING SYSTEM WITH VISCOUS DAMPING USING THE DIGITAL COMPUTER.

Abstract

The general solution of the behavior of a viscously damped vibrating system having several degrees of freedom, as developed in the literature via matrix methods, is treated in detail here and made the basis of a digital computer program which is capable of determining the natural frequencies, the mode shapes, and the displacements of each mass as functions of time. This program, which is written in FORTRAN 60 language for the Control Data Corporation 1604 computer, affords several output options. It does not treat cases of supercritical damping or cases in which two or more natural frequencies are the same. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0475319

Entities

People

  • Thomas J. Miklos

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Digital Computers
  • Displacement
  • Frequency
  • Language
  • Resonant Frequency

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Computer Science.
  • Structural Dynamics.