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A C O U S T I C S of W O O D
Lecture 3
Content of lecture 3:
1. Damping
2. Internal friction in the wood
A C O U S T I C S of W O O D
Lecture 3
Content of lecture 3:
1. Damping
2. Internal friction in the wood
A C O U S T I C S of W O O D
Lecture 3
Damping
sine wave is a waveform generated by a system that is characterised by simple harmonic motion
ideal system which exhibits simple harmonic motion is a system that loses no energy (or has its energy
replenished from outside the system)
such a waveform can also be called a continuous waveform as it continues forever without eventually reducing
to zero intensity
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Damping
real systems are never ideal; all naturallyoccuring systems loose energy (eg. as heat due to friction)
system loses energy as heat (both internally as a consequence of heat loss during physical deformation and
externally as a consequence of friction with air)
this loss of energy in an oscillating system is know as damping; a damped waveform is also know as a non
continuous waveform
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Damping
damped waveform can die out quickly or slowly; waveform that dies out quickly is said to be strongly damped
as it loses energy quickly; waveform that dies out slowly is said to be weakly damped as it loses energy slowly
damping is not just a characteristic of systems that generate noncontinuous sine wave like patterns, damping
is a characteristic of systems that produce sounds with very complex spectral patterns
in physics, damping is any effect that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations in an oscillatory system,
particularly the harmonic oscillator
in mechanics, friction is one such damping effect. For many purposes the frictional force Ff can be modeled as
being proportional to the velocity v of the object:
Ff = −c v
where: c is the viscous damping coefficient, given in units of newtonseconds per meter
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Damping
damped harmonic oscillators satisfy the secondorder differential equation:
where: ω0 is the undamped angular frequency of the oscillator and ζ is a constant called the damping ratio
for a mass on a spring having a spring constant k and a damping coefficient c:
ω0 = √(k/m)
ζ = c/2mω0.
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Damping
value of the damping ratio ζ determines the behavior of the system. A damped harmonic oscillator can be:
1. Overdamped (ζ > 1)
system returns (exponentially decays) to equilibrium without oscillating; larger values of the damping ratio ζ
return to equilibrium slower
2. Critically damped (ζ = 1)
system returns to equilibrium as quickly as possible without oscillating (often desired)
3. Underdamped (ζ < 1)
system oscillates (with a slightly different frequency than the undamped case) with the amplitude gradually
decreasing to zero
frequency of the underdamped harmonic oscillator is given by:
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Example of Spring – Mass System
A mass m attached to a spring and damper.
The damping coefficient is represented by B, F denotes an external force.
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Example of Spring – Mass System
ideal massspringdamper system with mass m (in kilograms), spring constant k (in newtons per meter) and
viscous damper of damping coefficient c (in newtonseconds per meter or kilograms per second) is subject to
an oscillatory force............................................ and a damping force...................................................................
treating the mass as a free body and applying Newton's second law (F=ma), the total force Ftot on the body is
where: a is the acceleration (in meters per second squared) of the mass and x is the displacement (in meters)
of the mass relative to a fixed point of reference
Ftot = Fs + Fd >>>>>>
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Example of Spring – Mass System
rearr. to:
where: (undamped) natural frequency of the system: the damping ratio:
the natural frequency represents an angular frequency, expressed in radians per second
the damping ratio is a dimensionless quantity
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Example of Spring – Mass System
the differential equation now becomes
we can solve the equation by assuming a solution x such that:
where: the parameter γ (gamma) is, in general, a complex number.
substituting this assumed solution back into the differential equation gives
which is the characteristic equation.
solving the characteristic equation will give two roots, γ+ and γ−; and the solution to the differential equation is:
where: A and B are determined by the initial conditions of the system:
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Example of Spring – Mass System
rearr. to:
where: (undamped) natural frequency of the system: the damping ratio:
the natural frequency represents an angular frequency, expressed in radians per second
the damping ratio is a dimensionless quantity
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A harmonic oscillator can be:
1. Overdamped (ζ > 1) system returns (exponentially decays) to equilibrium without oscillating; larger values
of the damping ratio ζ return to equilibrium slower
2. Critically damped (ζ = 1) system returns to equilibrium as quickly as possible without oscillating (often
desired)
3. Underdamped (ζ < 1) system oscillates (with a slightly different frequency than the undamped case) with
the amplitude gradually decreasing to zero
4. Undamped (ζ = 0)
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Dependence of the system behavior on the value of the damping ratio ζ, for underdamped,
criticallydamped, overdamped, and undamped cases, for zerovelocity initial condition.
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the behavior of the system depends on the relative values of the two fundamental parameters, the natural
frequency ω0 and the damping ratio ζ
in particular, the qualitative behavior of the system depends crucially on whether the quadratic equation for γ
has one real solution, two real solutions, or two complex conjugate solutions.
1. Critical damping (ζ = 1)
When ζ = 1, there is a double root γ (defined above), which is real. The system is said to be critically damped.
A critically damped system converges to zero faster than any other, and without oscillating.
In this case, with only one root γ, there is in addition to the solution x(t) = eγt a solution x(t) = teγt:
where A and B are determined by the initial conditions of the system (usually the initial position and velocity of
the mass):
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2. Overdamping (ζ > 1)
When ζ > 1, the system is overdamped and there are two different real roots. The solution to the motion
equation is:
where A and B are determined by the initial conditions of the system:
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3. Underdamping (0 ≤ ζ < 1)
Finally, when 0 ≤ ζ < 1, γ is complex, and the system is underdamped. In this situation, the system will
oscillate at the natural damped frequency ωd, which is a function of the natural frequency and the damping
ratio. In this case, the solution can be generally written as:
where:
represents the natural damped frequency of the system, and A and B are again determined by the initial
conditions of the system:
for an underdamped system, the value of ζ can be found by examining the logarithm of the ratio of
succeeding amplitudes of a system this is called the logarithmic decrement
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Logarithmic Decrement of Damping
Logarithmic decrement, δ, is used to find the damping ratio of an underdamped system in the time domain. The
logarithmic decrement is the natural log of the amplitudes of any two successive peaks:
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Q factor
the quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how underdamped an oscillator or
resonator is, or equivalently, characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency
higher Q indicates a lower rate of energy loss relative to the stored energy of the oscillator; the oscillations die
out more slowly (a pendulum suspended from a highquality bearing, oscillating in air, has a high Q, while a
pendulum immersed in oil has a low one)
for a single damped massspring system, the Q factor represents the effect of simplified viscous damping or
drag, where the damping force or drag force is proportional to velocity. The formula for the Q factor is:
where M is the mass, k is the spring constant, and D is the damping coefficient, defined by the equation
Fdamping = − D v, where v is the velocity
bandwidth, Δf, of a damped oscillator is shown on a graph
of energy versus frequency. The Q factor of the
damped oscillator, or filter, is f0 / Δf. The higher the Q, the narrower and 'sharper' the peak is.
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Simulation by finite element method
Ansys software
unsteady: full transient solution
1D (beam), 2D (shell), ev. 3D (solid)
1D solution: http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~clas16/~fyfe/ansys/dynamic/transient/transient.html
http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/tutorials/ansys/IT/Transient/Transient.html
preprocessing (geometry, physics), solution, postprocessing (time history)
modal analysis >>>>> full transient analysis
adaptation for wood (changes of material model)
A C O U S T I C S of W O O D
Lecture 3
Content of lecture 3:
1. Damping
2. Internal friction in the wood