Vibration and Modal Analysis

Emre Sakin
Emre Sakin New Altair Community Member
edited June 2023 in Community Q&A

Hello,

I am working on vibrations and modal analysis recently. I have a question that I could not find any answer. Can you please help me? 

Imagine a shaft. When we run the free free modal analysis lets assume that first bending mode is 600 Hz. Then we add 2 massless springs to the shaft. The first bending mode comes around 400 Hz. That means it decreased. How is it possible? If we add massless springs does not that mean the stiffness will increase? Can you please explain with formulas or send me some articles or books to understand it better.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards.

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  • Robert Hoglund
    Robert Hoglund
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2023

    Hi Emre,

    Increasing the stiffness without adding mass should generally increase the natural frequencies.  Are the additional springs the only difference in the models?  Could you share any more information here to clarify the issue like the .fem files?

    Thanks,

    Rob H.

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