Vibrating Beam Analysis

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
 

May - June 2020

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Authors: Steven Sun, AJ Morrell, Daniel Powers

 

Advisor: Prof. Ted Bennett

 

Project Overview:​

• Performed dynamic and static accelerometer calibrations and analyzed vibrating transient systems in MATLAB

• Investigated cross-material penetration depth in dropped test analysis by performing fast-fourier transformation of the acceleration data

• Calculated error propagations for uncertainty in accelerator and strain gauge data from LabVIEW

• Derived mechanical properties (angular & natural frequencies, time constant, damping ratio, Young's modulus, moment of inertia) of vibrating beam

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