Vibration of crane radius change system with internal damping

In the present work a problem pertaining to the damped lateral vibrations of the truck crane radius change system with the developed hydraulic cylinder model that changes the radius has been formulated and solved. In the adopted model the vibration energy dissipation derives from the internal damping of the viscoelastic material (the Kelvin-Voigt rheological model) of beams that model the system. Damped vibration frequency and the vibration amplitude decay level have been calculated. Changes of the eigenvalues of system vibrations with the damping ratio change and the change of the system geometry with different loads observed on it have been presented.