# Homework Help: Force transmitted to base

1. Dec 9, 2014

### Dustinsfl

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
How does one determine the amplitude of the force transmitted to the base of a beam?

2. Relevant equations

3. The attempt at a solution
The ODE modeling displacement is
$$-0.000891(9.60875\sin(183.26t) - 323.778\sin(5.4386t))$$

2. Dec 10, 2014

### haruspex

In what set-up?

3. Dec 10, 2014

### Dustinsfl

What do you mean?

4. Dec 10, 2014

### haruspex

I mean, describe what's going on. What beam, what forces, ...?

5. Dec 10, 2014

### Dustinsfl

It is a cantilever beam with end load.

6. Dec 10, 2014

### haruspex

OK, and what facts are you given - lengths, masses, moduli..? In the OP you mention ODE and quote an expression involving time, so I guess this is not a statics question. Is there some perturbation applied?

7. Dec 10, 2014

### Dustinsfl

A steel cantilever beam is $120$ in long by $1\times 1$ in$^2$ which has a motor that weighs $100$ lb$_f$ mounted at the end. The motor runs at 183.26 rad/sec. The motor has an unbalance of $0.1$ lb$_m$ located at a radius of $0.1$ in from the axis of the shaft. Assume that for the steel $E = 30\times 10^6$ psi, the density is $0.28$ lb$_m$/in$^3$, and that the damping ratio is $0.01$.

What I did was then:
First, let's convert Young modulus from psi to Pascals, 1 psi is $6894.76$ Pascals. Then $E = 2.07\times 10^{11}$ pascals. The moment of inertia is $I = \frac{bh^3}{12} = 3.47\times 10^{-8}$ m since 1 in is $0.0254$ m. The equivalent spring constant is
$$k_{eq} = \frac{3EI}{\ell^3} = 760.985\text{ N/m}.$$
The relation of mass with density is $\rho = \frac{m}{V}$. The volume of the cantilever beam is $V = 1^2(120) = 120$ in$^3$. Then $m = V\rho = \frac{120(0.28)}{2.2} = 15.273$ kg. The equivalent mass
$$m_{eq} = 15.273 + \frac{100}{2.2}0.23 = 25.7275\text{ kg}.$$
Then the natural frequency of the beam and the motor system is
$$\omega_n = \sqrt{\frac{k_{eq}}{m_{eq}}} = 5.4386\text{ rad/sec}.$$
Then I used a Laplace transform to determine $y(t)$

8. Dec 10, 2014

### haruspex

OK, well there's a lot there I could not have guessed at.
Plugging all these numbers in straight away makes it unnecessarily hard to follow.
what is b?
Where does the 0.23 come from?
And that is the time-dependent expression in the OP, right?
I assume you want the max stress at the beam support. In terms of the oscillation cycle, when will that occur?

9. Dec 10, 2014

### Dustinsfl

b = 1in or 0.0254 m 0.23 is by definition of equivalent mass of a cantilever beam.

I don't know. I am trying to determine the force transmitter to the base.