This Technical Brief presents a new method for vibration analysis of a non-classically damped system. The basic idea is to introduce a transformation, which bears clear physical meaning, so that the original non-classical damped system is transformed into a new 2nd-order system that does not have the damping term. The transformed system not only provides an alternative of calculating response, but also reveals more clearly vibration behaviors of the original system.

Issue Section:
Technical Briefs
Keywords:
damping, vibrations
Topics:
Damped linear dynamic systems, Damping, Vibration, Vibration analysis, Eigenvalues
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