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This document contains 5 questions as part of a tutorial exercise on vibration control. The questions involve designing vibration isolators for various machines, including an exhaust fan, air compressor, electric motor, washing machine, and diesel engine. The questions provide technical specifications for each machine, such as mass, operating speed, unbalance, and desired isolation levels. Students are asked to select suitable isolators and specify design details that meet given constraints on transmitted force levels, stiffness, damping ratio, and other factors.

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Tutorial Problem Set - 11 PDF

This document contains 5 questions as part of a tutorial exercise on vibration control. The questions involve designing vibration isolators for various machines, including an exhaust fan, air compressor, electric motor, washing machine, and diesel engine. The questions provide technical specifications for each machine, such as mass, operating speed, unbalance, and desired isolation levels. Students are asked to select suitable isolators and specify design details that meet given constraints on transmitted force levels, stiffness, damping ratio, and other factors.

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Tutorial Exercise-11

MDB3093: Vibrations

Vibration Control

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Q1. An exhaust fan, having a small unbalance, weights 800 N and operates at a speed of
600 rpm. It is desired to limit the response to a transmissibility of 2.5 as the fan
passes through resonance during start-up. In addition, an isolation of 90 percent is to
be achieved at the operating speed of the fan. Design a suitable isolator for the fan.
[10 marks]

Q2. An air compressor of mass 500 kg has an unbalance of 0.50 kg-m and operates at a
speed of 300 rpm. The compressor is to be mounted on one of the following
mountings: (a) an isolator consisting of a spring with negligible damping, and (b) a
shock absorber having a damping ratio of 0.1 and negligible stiffness. Select a
suitable mounting and specify the design details by considering the static deflection
of the compressor, the transmission ratio, and the amplitude of vibration of the
compressor.
[10 marks]

Tutorial Exercise-11

MDB3093: Vibrations

Q3. The armature of a variable-speed electric motor, of mass 200 kg, has an unbalance
due to manufacturing errors. The motor is mounted on an isolator having a stiffness
of 10 kN/m and a dashpot having a damping ratio of 0.15. (a) Find the speed range
over which the amplitude of the fluctuating force transmitted to the foundation will be
larger than the exciting force. (b) Find the speed range over which the transmitted
force amplitude will be less than 10 percent of the exciting force amplitude.
[10 marks]

Q4.

A washing machine of mass 50 kg operates at 1200 rpm. Find the maximum


stiffness of an isolator that provides 75 percent isolation. Assume that the damping
ratio of the isolator is 7 percent.
[10 marks]

Q5.

A diesel engine of mass 300 kg and operating speed 1800 rpm is found to have a
rotating unbalance of 1 kg-m. It is to be installed on the floor of an industrial plant for
purposes of emergency power generation. The maximum permissible force that can
be transmitted to the floor is 8000 N and the only type of isolator available has a
stiffness of 1 MN/m and a damping ratio of 5 percent. Investigate possible solutions
to the problem.
[10 marks]

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