• Title/Summary/Keyword: Wittrick- William algorithm

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Formulation of a Wittrick-Williams Algorithm for Computing Natural Frequencies of an Active Beam (능동보의 고유진동수 계산을 위한 휘트릭-윌리엄즈 알고리듬의 유도)

  • 김주홍;이우식
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.579-589
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a Wittrick-Williams algorithm is developed for the spectral element model of an elastic-piezoelectric two-layer active beam. This algorithm may help calculate all the required natural frequencies, which lie below any chosen frequency, without the possibility of missing any due to close grouping or due to the abrupt sign changes of the determinant of spectral element matrix via infinity instead of via zero. A uniform active beam and a partially patched active beam are considered as the illustrative examples to confirm the present algorithm.

Dynamic stiffness based computation of response for framed machine foundations

  • Lakshmanan, N.;Gopalakrishnan, N.;Rama Rao, G.V.;Sathish kumar, K.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.121-142
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    • 2009
  • The paper deals with the applications of spectral finite element method to the dynamic analysis of framed foundations supporting high speed machines. Comparative performance of approximate dynamic stiffness methods formulated using static stiffness and lumped or consistent or average mass matrices with the exact spectral finite element for a three dimensional Euler-Bernoulli beam element is presented. The convergence of response computed using mode superposition method with the appropriate dynamic stiffness method as the number of modes increase is illustrated. Frequency proportional discretisation level required for mode superposition and approximate dynamic stiffness methods is outlined. It is reiterated that the results of exact dynamic stiffness method are invariant with reference to the discretisation level. The Eigen-frequencies of the system are evaluated using William-Wittrick algorithm and Sturm number generation in the $LDL^T$ decomposition of the real part of the dynamic stiffness matrix, as they cannot be explicitly evaluated. Major's method for dynamic analysis of machine supporting structures is modified and the plane frames are replaced with springs of exact dynamic stiffness and dynamically flexible longitudinal frames. Results of the analysis are compared with exact values. The possible simplifications that could be introduced for a typical machine induced excitation on a framed structure are illustrated and the developed program is modified to account for dynamic constraint equations with a master slave degree of freedom (DOF) option.