• University of South Australia

• MATH 1064

 SIMULATION OF A SPRING MASS DAMPER SYSTEM USING MATLAB A Project work in partial fulfillment of the requirements for award of B.Sc Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of Lagos, Akoka Yaba, Lagos Nigeria November 2009 2 ABSTRACT The spring mass damper can be built or represented on the computer instead of going to the workshop to fabricate such system and its performance under various conditions can also be observed without having to subject the real system to these conditions hence, you save materials and money, since the system can be used countless times. Energy is also saved because such system is more easily built on a computer than physically. Moreover, it may be very difficult to measure some outputs of some systems such as displacement but such values can be measured with ease through simulation. With this project, we aim to investigate the performance of a spring mass damper system, under various conditions, through modeling, without having to subject the real system to these conditions. The results are obtained in visual forms so that they can be readily interpreted and discussed. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE PAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii ABSTRACT iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF FIGURES