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Free Body Diagram for more than One vibrating Mass Spring System

Consider the system shown in Figure 1:


𝑥1 𝑥2
𝑚 4𝑚

𝑘 2𝑘 5𝑘
𝑥𝑙 = 0 𝑥𝑟 = 0
Figure 1: 2 mass - 3 spring vibrating system

𝑘𝑥1
𝑚 2𝑘(𝑥2 − 𝑥1 )
4𝑚 5𝑘𝑥2
𝑥̈ 1 𝑥1 𝑥̈ 2 𝑥2
𝑥̇ 1 𝑥̇ 2

𝑚𝑥̈ 1 + 𝑘𝑥1 − 2𝑘(𝑥2 − 𝑥1 ) = 0


4𝑚𝑥̈ 2 + 2𝑘(𝑥2 − 𝑥1 ) + 5𝑘𝑥2 = 0
𝑚𝑥̈ 1 + 3𝑘𝑥1 − 2𝑘𝑥2 = 0
4𝑚𝑥̈ 2 − 2𝑘𝑥1 + 7𝑘𝑥2 = 0

1 0 𝑥̈ 1 3𝑘 −2𝑘 𝑥1 0
𝑚� �� � + � �� � = � �
0 4 𝑥̈ 2 −2𝑘 7𝑘 𝑥2 0

1
A two storey building is modeled as a mass-spring system shown in Figure 2. Sketch the free
body diagram for the system showing all motion vectors and forces, and write the equation of
motion of each mass and hence of the complete system in matrix form.

𝑚2

0.5𝑘2 0.5𝑘2

𝑚1
Figure 2.
0.5𝑘1 0.5𝑘1

𝑥̈ 2
𝑚2
𝑥̇ 2 𝑥2
𝑘2 (𝑥2 − 𝑥1 )
𝑥̈ 1
𝑚1
𝑥̇ 1 𝑥1
𝑘1 𝑥1

𝑚2 𝑥̈ 2 + 𝑘2 (𝑥2 − 𝑥1 ) = 0
𝑚1 𝑥̈ 1 − 𝑘2 (𝑥2 − 𝑥1 ) + 𝑘1 𝑥1 = 0

𝑚1 0 𝑥̈ 1 𝑘 + 𝑘2 −𝑘2 𝑥1 0
� �� � + � 1 � �𝑥 � = � �
0 𝑚2 𝑥̈ 2 −𝑘2 𝑘2 2 0

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