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This document is an examination paper for the Mid-Spring Semester 2021-22 for the Aerospace Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. It includes questions on spring-mass-damper systems, harmonic forces, damping coefficients, and energy dissipation in dampers, requiring derivations, calculations, and definitions. The exam is intended for 3rd-year B.Tech (H)/DD students and consists of four main questions with various parts.

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Mid-sem

This document is an examination paper for the Mid-Spring Semester 2021-22 for the Aerospace Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. It includes questions on spring-mass-damper systems, harmonic forces, damping coefficients, and energy dissipation in dampers, requiring derivations, calculations, and definitions. The exam is intended for 3rd-year B.Tech (H)/DD students and consists of four main questions with various parts.

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

KHARAGPUR -721302

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Date: 25/02/22, 9-10.30 AM Time: 1 Hours Full Marks: 40 No. of Students: 58
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Mid-Spring Semester 2021-22 Deptt.: Aerospace Engineering Sub. No. AE31002
3rd Yr. B.tech (H)/DD Sub. Name: Aerospace Structural Dynamics

Instruction: Answer all questions. Show all steps of calculations and derivations.
Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary and state them.

Q.1 (a) Derive equilibrium equation for a spring-mass-damper (as single degree of freedom)
system assuming Mass = m, damping coefficient = c and spring constant = k. Derive
expression of critical damping coefficient and define critical damping ratio (ζ)?
Redefine the above equilibrium equation in terms of natural frequency (ωn) and critical
damping ratio (ζ).
(b) A spring-mass-dashpot system has a spring stiffness, k=1.0KN/m, the damping rate of
the spring, c = 0.10 kg/s and a mass of 50x10-3 kg, Determine the time response
assuming the initial conditions x(0) = 0.0 and x (0) = 0.5 m/s.
2+2+2+4

Q.2 (a) A spring-mass-damper system is excited by a harmonic force, F0Sinωt. Determine the
amplitude and phase response of the system and represent graphically.
(b) Calculate the peak amplitude of oscillation for the above system and show that it occurs
ω
at = 1 − 2ζ 2 .
ωn
5+5

Q.3 (a) A machine part of mass 1.95 kg vibrates in a viscous medium. Determine the damping
coefficient when a harmonic excitation force of 24.46 N results in a resonant amplitude
of 1.27 cm with a period of 0.20 s.
(b) A tail rotor of a helicopter is supported on a tail section having stiffness, K=1x105 N/m
in the vertical direction and an effective mass of 20 kg. Calculate the deflection of the
tail section when the tail rotor rotates at 1500 rpm with an eccentric mass of 0.5 kg
attached to a blade of arm length 15 cm.
5+5

Q.4 Define hyteresis loop? Calculate energy dissipated by a viscous damper which is
experiencing sinusoidal oscillation? What are specific damping capacity & loss factor?
3+5+2

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