TOPOLOGICAL SIMPLIFICATIONS FOR MECHANICAL VIBRATION ANALYSIS.

Abstract

A theoretical method for prepresenting the physical characteristics of a portion of a mechanical piping system in terms of a stiffness matrix involving only those joints at which the sub-system is connected into the overall system is presented herein. The use of this method in reducing the size of the matrices that are needed for finding the normal vibration frequencies of a piping system is discussed, and an outline for a digital computer program to use this method is presented.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0487416

Entities

People

  • James Leon Simmons

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Digital Computers
  • Doppler Effect
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Piping Systems
  • Stiffness
  • Vibration

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design