SDOF & Damping Simulators

Explore how well a spring-damper isolator blocks vibration arriving through the foundation.

Visualize the free vibration of a mass-spring system with dry friction. Unlike viscous damping, the amplitude decays linearly, the motion stops in finite time, and the r…

Explore the half-power bandwidth (3 dB) method, which measures the damping ratio ζ from the width of a resonance peak in the frequency response function of a single-degr…

Compare simple harmonic, damped, and driven oscillations. Visualize resonance, Q-factor, and amplitude with interactive simulations and key physics equations.

Explore resonance with a real-time simulator. Adjust mass, stiffness, and damping to visualize curves and calculate Q factor, bandwidth, and phase lag.

Vary damping ratio and natural frequency to visualize the Frequency Response Function (FRF) in real time. Intuitively understand resonance mechanism and dynamic magnific…

Simulate vehicle suspension dynamics with the quarter-car model. Analyze ride comfort per ISO 2631 standards and vibration transmissibility for optimal handling.

Select Maxwell, Kelvin-Voigt, or Standard Linear Solid (SLS) model to calculate creep, stress relaxation, and dynamic viscoelasticity (E', E'', tan δ) in real time. Incl…

Explore a 1DOF spring-mass-damper simulator. Adjust parameters in real-time to visualize overdamped, critically damped, and underdamped vibrations.

Analyze series, parallel & mixed spring-mass-damper systems. Calculate static deflection, natural frequency, damping ratio, and dynamic step response.

Simulate bearing defects, imbalance & misalignment. Learn machine health monitoring principles with FFT and envelope analysis for predictive maintenance.

Explore SDOF damped vibration responses in real-time. Adjust mass, stiffness, and damping to compare underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped systems.

Calculate vibration transmissibility, isolation efficiency, and static deflection in real time. Design optimal mounts and visualize the resonance danger zone.

Real-time displacement transmissibility from base to equipment. Vary mass, stiffness, damping, and forcing frequency to watch the TR-r curve cross the r=√2 boundary into…

Calculate RMS stress, peak stress, and fatigue life using the Steinberg 3σ method for vibration analysis with PSD input. .