Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust’s

VISHWAKARMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PUNE. 37

(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Subject: Vibrations Analysis (4053)

HA (Section 1 Question 01)

A TV antenna tower is braced by four cables, as shown in Fig.. Each cable is under
tension and is made of steel with a cross-sectional area of 0.5 in.2. The antenna tower
can be modeled as a steel beam of square section of side 1 in. for estimating its mass
and stiffness. Find the towers natural frequency of bending vibration about the y-axis.