How best to model a mass spring system?
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I am trying to model a crane as a sdof so firstly by means of a mass spring system in order to get its displacement (vibration) upon an impulse (load).
I have an equation (newtons law) for it with a mass equal to 177046.4 and stiffness of spring equal to 1.0513x10^13. The max load the crane can take is 10ton, but I have been advised that the impulse would be anything between 1-3 tonnes in magnitude.
Not sure how to model this to then also get a plot of vibration (displacement of crane vs time).
Thanks in advance.
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Surbhi Pillai
on 24 Oct 2018
Hello
You can refer to the sample examples available in MATLAB to model Mechanical systems. It includes examples corresponding to Mass-Spring-Damper systems modelled in both Simulink and Simscape which can helpful in your case.
The documentation link corresponding to examples related to modelling Mechanical systems is available below:
I hope this helps....
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