Vibrations in Single-Degrees-of-Freedom Sampled-Data Linear Mechanical Systems

This paper aims to present that the effect of sampling can result in multi-frequency vibration even in the case of a single-degree-of-freedom linear mechanical model. Even though the sampled-data systems have an infinite number of characteristic exponents due to sampling, the vibrations of these systems can still be characterized by an effective system model with a single dominant frequency. However, as this paper shows, additional harmonics become relevant, resulting in multi-frequency vibrations depending on the magnitude of applied control parameters. The vibrations presented by the time histories of vibration and their spectra resulted in numerical simulation of the sampled-data system.