PART A Each 2 Marks

1. Define Forced Vibration and Resonance.

2. What is a Damper?
3. Define Viscous and Coulumb’s Damper.
4. Sketch a Spring Mass System with unstrained, equilibrium and displaced/strained position.
5. A car having a mass of 1000 kg deflects its spring 4 cm under its load. Determine the natural
frequency of the car in the vertical direction.
6. What is Whirling of Shafts and Critical Speed?
7. Write the Dunkerley’s formula
8. What are the types of Damping?
9. Differentiate Transverse and Torsional Vibration
10. Define Damping Ratio.
11. Define Swaying couple.
12. How does firing order affect the balancing of incline multi cylinder engine?
13. Define Shaking or Unbalanced Force.
14. What do you mean by Partial Balancing Single Cylinder Engine?
15. State the reason for choosing Multi – Cylinder Engine in comparison with Single Cylinder
Engine.
PART B Each 8 Marks
1. A shaft is rotating at a uniform speed with four masses m1, m2, m3 and m4 of magnitudes 300
kg, 450kg, 360kg and 390 kg respectively. The masses are rotating in the same plane. The
corresponding radii of rotation are 200mm, 150mm, 250mm and 300mm. The angles made by
these masses with respect to horizontal are 0⁰, 45⁰, 120⁰ and 255⁰ respectively. Find the
magnitude and position of balance mass if it radius of rotation is 200mm.
2. (i) What is degrees of freedom and classify it? (4)
(ii) Explain the types of vibration based on force and motion. (4)
3. Derive an expression for the natural frequency of the free longitudinal vibration by Rayleigh’s
method
PART C Each 13 Marks
1. Derive an expression for the natural frequency of the free longitudinal vibration by Energy
method (till fn).
2. Derive an expression for the natural frequency of oscillation of a simple pendulum.
3. A shaft of diameter 10 mm carries at its centre a mass of 12 kg. It is supported by two short
bearings, the centre distance of which is 400 mm. Find the whirling speed: (i) Neglecting the
mass of the shaft, and (ii) considering the mass of the shaft. The density of shaft material is
7500 kg/m3. Take E = 200 GN/m2.
4. A shaft 30mm diameter and 1.5 long has a mass of 16 kg per metre length. It is simply
supported at the ends and carries three isolated loads 1 kN, 1.5 kN and 2 kN at 0.4 m, 0.6 m
and 0.8 m respectively from the left support. Find the frequency of the transverse vibrations:
(1) Neglecting the mass of the shaft, and (2) considering the mass of the shaft. Take E = 200
GPa.

5. 4 masses m1, m2, m3, m4 are 200 kg, 300 kg, 240 kg, and 260 kg respectively. The
corresponding radii of rotation are 0.2 m, 0.15 m, 0.25 m, 0.3 m respectively and the angles
between the successive masses are 45⁰, 75⁰, 135⁰. Find the position and magnitude of the
balance mass required, if its radius of rotation is 0.2 m (Solve in Analytical method with space
diagram)
6. A Shaft carries 4 masses A, B, C and D of magnitude 200 kg, 300 kg, 400 kg and 200 kg
respectively and revolving at radii 80 mm, 70 mm, 60 mm, 80 mm in planes measured from A
at 300 mm, 400 mm, and 700 mm. The angles between the crank measured anticlockwise are
A to B 45⁰, B to C 70⁰ and C to D 120⁰. The balancing masses are to be placed in planes X and
Y. The distance between the planes A and X is 100 mm, between X and Y is 400 mm and
between Y and D is 200 mm. If the balancing masses revolve at a radius of 100 mm, find the
magnitudes and angular positions.