The Importance Of Vibration In The Mechanical System

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Vibration in mechanical system is the movement and motion of a body and particle that are oscillating in a position. Due to increasing energy losses and stresses, most of that vibrations in structures and machinery are unwanted and maybe objectionable. In completing a whole cycle of the motion, the requirement of time interval is the period or point of the vibration. Frequency of vibration is the total counting of a cycle per unit time. On the other hand, amplitude of vibration is the displacement being maximized of the system from the point of equilibrium. The particle will be undergoing in a simple harmonic motion if the unit is being displace with a calculated distance from one point to another and being release …show more content…

But vibrations can also be beneficial. For instance, many different types of mining operations rely on sifting vibrations through which different sized particles are sorted using vibrations. In nature, vibrations are also used by all kinds of different species in their daily lives. Orb web spiders, for example, use vibrations in their webs to detect the presence of flies and other insects as they struggle after being captured in the web for food. The reason that mechanical systems vibrate freely is because energy is exchanged between the system’s inertial (masses) elements and elastic (springs) elements. Free vibrations usually cease after a certain length of time because damping elements in systems dissipate energy as it is converted back-and-forth between kinetic energy and potential energy. The role of mechanical vibration analysis should be to use mathematical tools for modeling and predicting potential vibration problems and solutions, which are usually not obvious in preliminary engineering designs. If problems can be predicted, then designs can be modified to mitigate vibration problems before systems are manufactured. Vibrations can also be intentionally introduced into designs to take advantage of benefits of relative mechanical motion and to resonate systems (e.g., scanning microscopy). Unfortunately, knowledge of vibrations in preliminary mechanical designs is rarely considered essential, so many vibration studies are carried out only after systems are manufactured. In these cases, vibration problems must be addressed using passive or active design modifications. Sometimes a design modification may be as simple as a thickness change in a vibrating panel; added thickness tends to push the resonant

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