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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 55
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VIII.2

An Improved Component Mode Method for Truss Vibration Analysis

E. Levy+ and M. Eisenberger*

+Faculty of Agricultural Engineering
*Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
E. Levy, M. Eisenberger, "An Improved Component Mode Method for Truss Vibration Analysis", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Structural Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 123-129, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.55.8.2
Abstract
The inertial forces that develop along the members of a truss influence the response of the truss. These inertial forces cause the members of the truss to bend, but also introduce axial vibrations along them. Previous work included the bending inertia effects in their analysis using the Component Mode Method. In this work the axial local member vibration effects on the overall behavior of the truss are included also by the Component Mode Method. As was done before for the bending vibrations, a limited number of axial modes are added to the analysis. The members are treated as substructures, and the element stiffness and mass matrices are expanded to include the local mode effects. Several examples are used to demonstrate the improvement of vibration properties determination of plane and space trusses.

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