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Index
Spreadsheet title
Author
Summary
Copyright
Licensing conditions
Disclaimer
Modification history
Detailed instructions for use
Matters requiring some elaboration
Units
Test problem
Use of "protection" within the spreadsheet
Known bugs/anomalies/quirks
References
A personal note
Spreadsheet title
Current version
3.00
Author
Robert Niall
rmniall48@gmail.com
http://rmniall.com
Summary
Copyright
Licensing conditions
This spreadsheet is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.
See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of this license
along with the spreadsheet. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Disclaimer
This spreadsheet is distributed in the hope that it will be useful. However it is distributed WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY, without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
The spreadsheet cannot be guaranteed to give correct results, and anyone who uses it must check its results
by hand calculations or other means. All information it presents is for review, verification, interpretation,
approval and application by a suitably qualified Professional Engineer.
Modification history
Version
1.00
2.00
2.10
3.00
Comments
Written to bypass the enormous tedium and
error-proneness of the manual process. (Lotus 2.01)
Numerous improvements over the intervening years.
Converted from Lotus 2.01 to Microsoft Excel-97.
Numerous improvements over the intervening years.
Coupling introduced. Some minor cosmetic changes.
Converted to an appropriate format for public release.
Rough isometric sketch added.
When
released
Oct 1991
By whom
released
Rob Niall
Jan 2001
Rob Niall
Apr 2002
Nov 2013
Rob Niall
Rob Niall
Enter different values for the internal soil damping ratio if 0.03 is not to your taste.
If there is a key point at which displacements are wanted, enter its coordinates in the cells provided.
Matters requiring some elaboration
When specifying the dynamic force, if you enter a non-zero value for more than one of the directions
then each component will be treated as a separate, independent force. (They will not be treated as
vector components of a single force.) All of these independent, orthogonal forces will be assumed to
have magnitudes that vary sinusoidally, but their relative phases are unspecified and will be taken so as
to produce the worst result.
The components of the calculated "combined displacements" are derived assuming that all independent
vibration modes combine with whatever relative phases produce the worst result. (Coupled modes are
not independent, and are treated with their correct phases relationships relative to each other.)
In response to the obvious question of when to use the uncoupled results and when to use the
coupled ones, the spreadsheet's author is still thinking about it. In the meantime, prudence suggests
that you should use whichever approach gives the worst result.
Units
The spreadsheet uses inconsistent and "hard-wired" units throughout, but these are identified at every
appropriate location.
Test problem
The spreadsheet is supplied with its input cells preloaded with a "standard" sample problem.
An image of what should flow from this is shown on the Sample_problem worksheet.
Use of "protection" within the spreadsheet
All worksheets in this spreadsheet are "protected", with the only unlocked cells being those in which the
user is allowed to enter data. This is done purely as a way of ensuring that cells containing important
formulae cannot be overwritten in a careless moment. As a visual aid to the user, the unlocked cells
have been given a faint yellow background colour.
There is no password enforcing the protection, so you can readily "unprotect" any worksheet if you
want to. However this is not recommended unless you have a good reason, and so to make such
behaviour a bit more difficult the protection is automatically re-applied whenever the spreadsheet is opened.
The macro code (the "VBA Project") that forms part of the spreadsheet is also protected, but with a
password enforcing the protection. This is done so that if the VBA code encounters an error it will not
expose itself to the user. The password that has been used for this purpose is "Foundation".
Known bugs/anomalies/quirks
The standard Excel undo facility is frequently not available, as an inevitable consequence of the
spreadsheet's use of macros.
References
Arya, S., M. O'Neill & G. Pincus, Design of Structures and Foundations for Vibrating Machines,
Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 1979. In particular see Table 6-2 of this book.
Prakash, S., and V. Puri, Foundations for Machines: Analysis and Design,
John Wiley & Sons, 1988. In particular see Chapter 6 of this book.
NOTE. While studying this book to implement its approach to coupled vibrations I encountered
what I strongly believe to be several errors. I sought the opinion of a knowledgeable colleague
at my work, and he agreed with me. I then wrote a short document describing the errors.
A copy of this document will have been included in the download package for this spreadsheet.
Bowles, J.E., Foundation Analysis and Design, by J.E.Bowles, McGraw-Hill, 1977.
In particular see Section 20-8 of this book.
A fourth edition was published in 1988, and a paperback version was released in 2001.
A personal note
This is the very first spreadsheet I ever wrote. I embarked upon it principally as a learning exercise,
and it has continued to teach me things from time to time ever since.
It is a mute point whether the spreadsheet in its current encarnation can claim to be the "same"
spreadsheet as that Lotus-based thing I struggled with all those years ago. The situation reminds me
of that joke about the old family axe: "This has been the family's axe since my grandfather's time. It
has had two new heads and five new handles, and it's still going strong."
2,400 kg/m3
X1
Y1
Z1
X2
Y2
Z2
(m)
-1.580
(m)
-2.280
(m)
0.000
(m)
1.580
(m)
2.280
(m)
1.000
Mass
Xg
Yg
Zg
Ixx
Iyy
Izz
(kg)
7,200
(m)
0.000
(m)
0.000
(m)
4.260
(kg.m )
0
(kg.m )
0
(kg.m2)
0
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.500
4.260
1.148
0.000
77,325
69,732
147,058
46,178
69,732
115,910
88,703
0
88,703
202,116
170,968
Concrete blocks:
Main Foundation
Add'l block #1
Add'l block #2
Add'l block #3
Add'l block #4
Add'l block #5
Add'l block #6
Add'l block #7
Add'l block #8
Add'l block #9
Machinery etc:
Main Machine
Add'l mass #1
Add'l mass #2
Add'l mass #3
Add'l mass #4
Add'l mass #5
Add'l mass #6
Add'l mass #7
160
Poisson's ratio
0.40
Density (kg/m )
1800
0.9
Check
Dynamic forces
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X
Force amplitudes (kN)
50
Point of app'n (m)
0.000
Operating frequency (rpm)
2600
Assume resonance if frequency ratio (r) is inside the range
Y
50
0.000
Z
0
4.260
0.80
1.20
Y-dir'n
XX-rot'n
Z-dir'n
2.142
2.375
1.370
1.290
0.943
0.536
2,197,399 12,128,866
2.142
1.151
2.143
2,497,139
Dynamic properties
Spring constants:
Equiv radius (m)
Ro
Embedment factor
Coefficient
Equiv spring const (kN/m or kN.m/rad)
Damping ratios:
Embedment factor
Mass ratio
B
Effective damping coef't
n
Geometric damping ratio
Dg
Internal damping ratio
Di
Total damping ratio
Dt
X-dir'n
YY-rot'n
2.142
1.370
0.991
2,307,842
1.977
1.358
0.449
7,401,679
1.946
0.468
1.100
0.708
1.289
0.09
0.05
0.14
1.066
0.335
1.455
0.15
0.05
0.20
1.378
0.354
2244
1987
2190
2339
1947
2240
50.0
213.0
50.0
213.0
1.159
1.309
1.187
1.111
1.000
1.309
1.000
1.000
0.575
1.248
0.575
2.449
1.246E-005 3.591E-005 1.308E-005 4.301E-005
1.154
1.329
1.154
2.645
57.7
283.1
57.7
563.4
2334
0.0
1.114
1.000
0.484
0
1.111
0.0
0.82
0.05
0.87
1.946
0.468
0.82
0.05
0.87
0.98
0.05
1.03
fn
ft
r
Md
T
X
0.0484
0.1654
Y
0.0561
0.1963
0.1654
0.1963
Z
0.1548
0.0000
4.260
0.0000
Resultant
0.1716
0.2567
0.2567
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Y & XX
(rpm)
1676
1831
(m)
-1.447
-2.665
(rpm)
(m)
3232
2.217
3280
2.071
Frequency ratio #1
Frequency ratio #2
Op freq assumed in calcs below
(rpm)
1.55
0.80
3232
1.42
0.79
2600
(m)
(m)
(radian)
(radian)
-4.199E-005
8.125E-006
-2.682E-005
1.724E-005
-3.600E-005
2.526E-005
1.456E-005
-2.568E-005
X
0.0384
0.1398
0.000
0.1398
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Y
0.0401
0.1329
0.000
0.1329
Z
0.1177
0.0000
4.260
0.0000
Resultant
0.1301
0.1930
0.1930
SAMPLE PROBLEM
Below is an image of the Calculations worksheet for the sample problem. (This image was created
using the 6 pulldown beside the Copy button in the Clipboard section of the Ribbon's Home tab.)