Longitudinal vibrations of a bar with incipient transverse cracks

Abstract

The simplest model of longitudinal vibrations of a bar with incipient transverse cracks is considered under the essential assumption that the crack size is small compared with the bar cross-section area and the difference between the mode shapes of the bar with incipient cracks and the undamaged bar is small. The different manifestation of cracks in the phases of extension and compression strains is taken into account. The natural vibration frequencies and the crack coordinates and dimensions are determined from experimental values of natural frequencies.