This document summarizes the key concepts around harmonic excitation of undamped and damped systems from Chapter 2. It introduces the important concept of resonance that occurs when the driving frequency matches the natural frequency of the system. For an undamped system under harmonic excitation, the response is the sum of the homogeneous and particular solutions. The particular solution assumes the form of the driving force. When the driving frequency approaches the natural frequency, the amplitude of the response increases dramatically. For a damped system, the particular solution includes a phase shift.
Note that even with ZERO initial conditions, the applied force activates part of the free response!
Looking at the example on the slide labeled heavy beams from section 4, the effective mass of the beam becomes 3.14 instead of 3 which changes the frequency by 1%