
320 CHAPTER 6 Single Degree-of-Freedom Systems Subjected to Transient Excitations
To obtain x(t), we first make use of Eqs. (6.46) and (6.17). Thus, we
obtain
(6.55)
From the transform pairs 15 and 3 in Table A of Appendix A, the inverse of
X(s) given by Eq. (6.55) is
(6.56)
where, for the system with z 1,
(6.57)
and w is given by Eq. (6.8). It is noted that in this notation t v
n
t
(c
r
/
c
)(t/t
o
) and v
n
t
o
c
r
/
c
.
Equations (6.44), (6.48), (6.54), and (6.56) are plotted in Figure 6.24 for
two different values of z and three different values of
c
, which is the ratio of
the cutoff frequency to the system natural frequency. The displacement
response of the mass can be interpreted from the corresponding amplitude
spectrum. The displacement response for
c
0.04 is similar to the response
of the pulse train shown in Figure 5.41 and to the response to a step change in
the applied force, which is shown in Figure 6.10. In all three cases, the
oscillations about the respective steady-state positions are caused by spectral
components of the forcing that are in the frequency range of the single
degree-of-freedom system’s natural frequency. As discussed in Example 5.17,
the excitation components in this range are magnified by the system’s
frequency-response function. The period of these oscillations is equal to the
period of the damped natural frequency of the system. Thus, when damping
is increased, the magnitude and duration of the oscillations decrease, because
the magnification of the force’s spectral energy in this region is considerably
less than that when the damping is small. The amount of spectral energy in
the force’s pulse that is in the region of the system’s natural frequency is a
function of the cutoff frequency; the shorter the duration of the pulse, the
larger the amount of energy there is in the region of the system’s natural fre-
quency. In the limit, as the spectrum approaches that of the spectrum
of an impulse function; that is, one whose amplitude spectrum is constant
over the entire frequency range. For relatively long t
o
, the displacement
response of the linear single degree-of-freedom system resembles that of a
step response. As t
o
decreases, the displacement of the mass response looks
less and less like the form of the rectangular pulse, and as t
o
decreases still fur-
ther, the response approaches the system’s impulse response.
t
o
씮 0,
1
e
z1c
r
/
c
21t/t
o
2
21 z
2
sin31c
r
/
c
21t/t
o
221 z
2
w4
g1t 2 1
e
zv
n
t
21 z
2
sin1v
d
t w2
x1t 2
E
o
/k
2
c
3g1t2u1t 2 g1t t
o
2u1t t
o
24
X1s 2 G1s 2F1s2
F
o
m
c
1
sD1s 2
e
st
o
sD1s 2
d