
stiffness of the other shaft is represented by k
t2
. It is assumed that the fly-
wheels are immersed in housings filled with oil and that the corresponding
dissipative effect is modeled by using the viscous damping coefficients c
t1
and
c
t2
. In the free-body diagrams of Figure 7.3, the inertial moments
and are also shown.
Based on the free-body diagrams shown in Figure 7.3, we apply the prin-
ciple of angular momentum balance to each of the flywheels and obtain the
governing equations
(7.2a)
which are written in matrix form as
(7.2b)
In this case, the equations are coupled because of the non-zero off-diagonal
terms in the stiffness matrix, which are due to the shaft with stiffness k
t2
.
Both of the physical systems chosen for illustration of force-balance and
moment-balance methods are described by linear models and the associated
governing system of equations is written in matrix form. This is possible to
do for any linear multi-degree-of-freedom system, as illustrated in Example
7.1. For a nonlinear multi-degree-of-freedom system, the governing nonlin-
ear equations of motion are linearized to obtain a set of linear equations; the
resulting linear equations are amenable to matrix form. This is illustrated in
Example 7.3.
EXAMPLE 7.1
Modeling of a milling machine on a flexible floor
A milling machine and a vibratory model of this system are shown in Fig-
ure 7.4. We shall derive the governing equations of motion for this system by
using the force-balance method. As shown in Figure 7.4b, the milling ma-
chine is described by using the three inertial elements m
1
, m
2
, and m
3
along
with discrete spring elements and damper elements. All three inertial ele-
ments translate only along the i direction. The external force f
1
(t) in the i di-
rection shown in the figure is a representative disturbance acting on m
1
.
To obtain the governing equations of motion, we use the generalized co-
ordinates x
1
, x
2
, and x
3
, each measured from the system’s static equilibrium
position. Since the coordinates are measured from the static equilibrium po-
sition, gravity forces are not considered below. In order to apply the force-
balance method to each inertial element, the free-body diagrams shown in
Figure 7.4c are used. Applying the force-balance method along the i direction
to each of the masses, we obtain the following equations:
(a)m
3
x
$
3
1k
2
k
3
2x
3
k
2
x
2
1c
2
c
3
2x
#
3
c
2
x
#
2
0
m
2
x
$
2
1k
1
k
2
2x
2
k
1
x
1
k
2
x
3
1c
1
c
2
2x
#
2
c
1
x
#
1
c
2
x
#
3
0
m
1
x
$
1
k
1
1x
1
x
2
2 c
1
1x
#
1
x
#
2
2f
1
1t 2
c
J
o1
0
0 J
o2
de
f
$
1
f
$
2
f c
c
t1
0
0 c
t2
de
f
#
1
f
#
2
f c
k
t1
k
t2
k
t2
k
t2
k
t2
de
f
1
f
2
f e
M
o
1t 2
0
f
J
o2
f
$
2
c
t2
f
#
2
k
t2
1f
2
f
1
2 0
J
o1
f
$
1
c
t1
f
#
1
k
t1
f
1
k
t2
1f
1
f
2
2 M
o
1t 2
J
o2
f
$
2
k
J
o1
f
$
1
k
7.2 Governing Equations 341