44 INTRODUCTION
if an external force or an imposed displacement excitation is applied to a system during
vibration, the mechanical o structural system is said to undergo forced vibrations, The applied
force may be harmonic, non-harmonic but periodic, non-petiodic, ot sandom in nature, The
response of a system to a harmonic excitation is called harmonic response, The nomperodie
excitation may have a fong of short duration. The response of a dynamic system to suddenly
applied non periodic excitations is called transient response, Harmonie excited faroe may be
of Fig) = Fy sin (ar+ @), A) = F, cos (wt + 6) type where F, is the amplitude, « is the
frequency, and 6 isthe phase angle af the harmonic