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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Int Mech Eng Congress Expo. 2012 Nov;2:493–501. doi: 10.1115/IMECE2012-88081

Figure 3.

Figure 3

roots of the characteristic polynomial as function of the damping CP. First row represents the real root. Second and third rows represent the real and imaginary parts of the two complex conjugate roots. Notice that the imaginary part never changes sign as the damping increases.