Creating and Running a Forced-Vibration Analysis
Here you create and run a forced-vibration analysis called lateral.
To create and run a forced-vibration analysis:
1. Return to the modeling environment by pressing the
Adams View tool

on the Adams PostProcessor toolbar.
2. Click the Plugins tab on the Adams View ribbon.
3. From the
Vibration container, click
Vibration tool
→ Test → Vibration Analysis.
The Perform Vibration Analysis dialog box appears.
4. Select New Vibration Analysis.
5. In the corresponding text box, enter lateral_x.
6. For Operating Point, select Assembly.
7. Select Forced Vibration Analysis.
8. Accept the Damping default of On.
9. Right-click the Input Channels text box, point to Input_Channel, point to Guesses, and then select Input_x.
Adams Vibration inserts input_x in the Input Channels text box.
10. Right-click the Output Channels text box, point to Output_channel, point to Guesses, and then select *.
Adams Vibration inserts into the Output Channels text box all the output channels you created earlier.
11. Select Logarithmic Spacing of Steps.
12. Under Frequency Range (hz), in the Begin text box, enter 0.1.
13. In the End text box, enter 1000.
14. In the Steps text box, enter 400.
15. Select OK.
Adams Vibration performs a forced-vibration analysis.