THE UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

FINAL ASSESSMENT/EXAMINATIONS APRIL 2014

Course Code and Title: DYNA 1001 Engineering Systems Dynamics

Programme: Common Year One (San Fernando and OMeara FT and PT)
Date and Time: Thursday 17th April, 2014.

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Time 1:00 4:00 pm

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Duration: 3 hours

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Instructions to Candidates
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This paper has 3 pages and 4 questions.

You are required to answer ALL questions.
The question paper is to be returned with the Answer script.
You are provided with a set of Laplace Tables with this paper.

Key Examination Protocol

1. Students please note that academic dishonesty (or cheating) includes but is not limited to
plagiarism, collusion, falsification, replication, taking unauthorised notes or devices into an
examination, obtaining an unauthorised copy of the examination paper, communicating or
trying to communicate with another candidate during the examination, and being a party to
impersonation in relation to an examination.
2. The above mentioned and any other actions which compromise the integrity of the academic
evaluation process will be fully investigated and addressed in accordance with UTTs
academic regulations.
3. Please be reminded that speaking without the Invigilators permission is NOT allowed.

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1. The suspension system for one wheel of an old fashioned pickup truck is illustrated in

Figure Q1(a) and the schematic for the system is shown in Fig Q1(b). The mass of the
vehicle is m 1 and the mass of the wheel is m 2 .The suspension spring has a spring constant
k 1 and the tyre has a spring constant k 2 . The damping constant of the shock absorber is b.
Obtain the transfer function Y 1 (s)/X(s), which represents the vehicle response to bumps
in the road.
[20 marks]

Fig Q1(a)
Fig Q1(b)
2. The transfer function of the RC network given in Figure Q2 is
1
()
=
.
() 1+

Given R = 1 k, C = 1F, if switch S 1 , is closed at t = 0.

(a) Obtain an expression for y(t)
(b) Plot r(t) vs t and y(t) vs t for t = 0 to t = 10 ms
(c) What is the final value of y(t)?

[10 marks]
[10 marks]
[10 marks]

Fig Q2
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3. A mercury-in-glass thermometer acts as a first-order system with an input of temperature

and an output of the mercury position against a scale. The thermometer is initially at 0C
and is then suddenly placed in water at l00C. After 80 s the thermometer reads 98C.
Determine
(a) the time constant,
[5 marks]
(b) the delay time,
[5 marks]
(c) the rise time.
[5 marks]
4. An electromechanical open-loop control system is shown in Figure Q4. The generator,

driven at a constant speed, provides the field voltage for the motor. The motor has an
inertia J, and bearing friction b m . Obtain the transfer function L (s)/V f (s). The generator
voltage v g can be assumed to be proportional to the field current i f (v g = K g i f ).
Note that:
Tm = Kmig
[35 marks]

Fig Q4

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