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Vibration and Noise 354

Practical 1: Design and Conduct a SDOF Experiment Prakties 1: Ontwerp en Doen n EVS Eksperiment
Safety: Please ensure that you are aware and follow all the general safety regulations of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Veiligheid: Vergewis u asseblief van die algemene veiligheidsrels wat in die laboratoria van die Departement Meganiese Ingenieurswese van krag is.

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Task
Together with your assigned group members, design and conduct an experiment that address the following: You have been asked to determine the dynamic characteristics of the single-degree-of-freedom set-up. More specific have you been tasked to determine the natural frequency/ies of the system and how well the measured values correspond with those calculated when the spring stiffness and mass are known. Furthermore is it also necessary to determine the value of the unknown mass, spring stiffness as well as the damping of the system. U is gevra om die dinamiese karakteristieke van die gegewe enkelvryheidsgraadstelsel eksperimenteel te bepaal. Daar is veral behoefte om vas te stel wat die natuurlike frekwensie/s van die stelsel is asook hoe die gemete waardes vergelyk met die voorspelde waardes sou slegs die massa en veerstyfheid bekend wees. Verder is dit ook nodig dat daar afskatting van die onbekende massa en veerstyfheid in die opstelling sowel as die demping in die stelsel gemaak word. Design an experiment with carefull consideration of the data reductions steps that you will carry out to carry out thi stask. Ontwerp n eksperiment, met klem op die redusering van die data, om bogenoemde taak uit te voer. Execute the experiment in collaboration with your group members. Voer die eksperiment in groepverband uit.

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Individually (i.e. not as a group), write a formal report explaining the design of the experiment as well as the data reduction. The report must meet the requirements given in section 3. Due date: the reports have to be handed in by 14h00 of the first Tuesday following the day of your laboratory session.

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Assessment

Both the experiment and the report must be completed to a satisfactory level to pass the module, since this assessment determines whether the relevant parts of ECSA Exit Level Outcome (EOL) 4 have been completed. In accordance with ECSA EOL 4, the report has to demonstrate that you have executed an acceptable process to design and conduct an experiment, including:

1. Planned and conducted the experiment; 2. Conducted a literature search and critically evaluated the relevant material; 3. Performed the necessary analyses; 4. Selected and used appropriate equipment or software; 5. Analysed, interpreted and derived information from experimental data; 6. Drew conclusions based on evidence obtained from the experiment; 7. Communicated the purpose, process and outcomes in a technical report. The report will also be assessed in terms of its professional communication standard. Reports that do not meet all the requirements given in section 3, or that do not meet the standard of a professional technical report, will not be accepted. Students that submit reports that do not meet the required standard, will be given only one opportunity to submit an improved report within 7 days of the first reports' results being made known. If the improved report is not submitted by the due date or still does not meet the required standard, a class mark of less than 40 will be awarded to the particular student. The reports will be submitted to an external moderator.

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Requirements for the report

The report must meet all of the requirements given in "Guide for Writing Technical Reports" (Basson & Von Backstrm, 2007), as well as the further requirements given here. Length: The report should be approximately 2000 to 3000 words from the introduction to the conclusions. Required parts: Cover page Title page Plagiarism declaration (as given on the Departmental website) Abstract Table of contents List of figures List of tables (if tables are used in the report) Nomenclature Introduction (including background) Literature review and theoretical background Materials and methods, including the design of the experiment (explaining how you decided on the experimental set-up and experimental procedure; the selection of software for data collection and analysis must also be addressed), as well as sufficient detail of the eventual set-up and procedures so that someone else can exactly duplicate the experiment A discussion of the measured data, the analysis of that data and interpretation of the analysis results Conclusions drawn (in terms of the success of the experiment's design and in terms of the interpretations obtained from the experiment itself) References Appendices (e.g. raw data, calibration data, datasheets, etc) References : Only the Harvard method may be used. Layout: It must be as prescibed for A4 pages in the Guide for Writing Technical Reports. Turnitin: The final reports have to be submitted on Turnitin on WebCT.

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