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The lateral vibration of non-uniform bars, with application to ships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. B. Moullin
Affiliation:
Downing College

Extract

The heavy elastic structure of a ship possesses many natural periods of lateral vibration, and if any periodic disturbing force within the hull happens to synchronise approximately with any of these natural periods, considerable vibration may result. Experience has shown that the damping of the hull structure is small, and when the rate of revolution of the propeller coincides with a natural period of the ship, a vibration of large amplitude is set up. No doubt reciprocating machinery is competent to produce more violent vibration than turbine machinery, but the inevitable lack of balance of the propeller itself is sufficient to vibrate seriously a turbine-driven ship.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1928

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