scholarly journals Nonlinear Damping Based Semi-active Building Isolation System

Author(s):  
Yunpeng Zhu
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 168781401881719 ◽  
Author(s):  
You Wang ◽  
Xinghua Zhu ◽  
Rong Zheng ◽  
Zhe Tang ◽  
Bingbing Chen

In this study, the applications of the cubic power law damping in vessel isolation systems are investigated. The isolation performance is assessed using the force transmissibility of the vessel isolation system, which is simplified as a multiple-degree-of-freedom system with two parallel freedoms. The force transmissibilities of different working conditions faced in practice are discussed by applying the cubic power law damping on different positions of the vessel isolation system. Numerical results indicate that by adding the cubic power law damping to an appropriate position, the isolation system can not only suppress the force transmissibility over the resonant frequency region but also keep the force transmissibility unaffected at the nonresonant frequency region. Moreover, the design of the nonlinear vessel isolation system is discussed by finding the optimal nonlinear damping of the isolation system.


2018 ◽  
Vol 424 ◽  
pp. 302-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Ho ◽  
Yunpeng Zhu ◽  
Zi-Qiang Lang ◽  
Stephen A. Billings ◽  
Masayuki Kohiyama ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Carranza ◽  
M. J. Brennan ◽  
B. Tang

In this paper, the behavior of a single degree-of-freedom (SDOF) passive vibration isolation system with geometrically nonlinear damping is investigated, and its displacement and force transmissibilities are compared with that of a linear system. The nonlinear system is composed of a linear spring and a linear viscous damper which are connected to a mass so that the damper is perpendicular to the spring. The system is excited by a harmonic force applied to the mass or a displacement of the base in the direction of the spring. The transmissibilities of the nonlinear isolation system are calculated using analytical expressions for small amplitudes of excitation and by using numerical simulations for high amplitude of excitation. When excited with a harmonic force, the forces transmitted through the spring and the damper are analyzed separately by decomposing the forces in terms of their harmonics. This enables the effects of these elements to be studied and to determine how they contribute individually to the nonlinear behavior of the system as a whole. For single frequency excitation, it is shown that the nonlinear damper causes distortion of the velocity of the suspended mass by generating higher harmonic components, and this combines with the time-varying nature of the damping in the system to severely distort the force transmitted though the damper. The distortion of the force transmitted through the spring is much smaller than that through the damper.


Author(s):  
Ata Donmez ◽  
Ender Cigeroglu ◽  
Gokhan O. Ozgen

Static deflections due to static loadings limit the isolation performance of linear vibration isolation systems. Therefore, quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) mechanisms, i.e. nonlinear isolators with high static and low dynamic stiffness characteristic, are used to decrease the natural frequency of the isolation structure and improve the isolation performance of the system while having the same loading capacity. However, the resulting system is highly nonlinear and unstable solutions may as well occur. Although increasing the amount of linear viscous damping in the system reduces the nonlinearity, it has adverse effect on the isolation region. Geometrically nonlinear damping is effective when the response of the isolation system increases; hence, isolation region is unaffected. Combination of position depended nonlinear damping and QZS mechanism eliminates highly input depended response of QZS mechanism. In this study, a single degree of freedom system with a nonlinear isolator having QZS mechanism and geometrically nonlinear damping is considered. The nonlinear differential equations of motion of the isolation system are converted into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations by using harmonic balance method, which are solved by using Newton’s method with arc-length continuation. Several case studies are performed and the effect of stiffness and loading deviations on the isolation performance is studied.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988141989538
Author(s):  
Chong Sun ◽  
Xiaolei Hou

On-orbit capture is an important technique for the space debris removal, refueling, or malfunction satellite repairing. While due to the uncertainty of the motion parameters of the space noncooperative target, the impact between the capture device and the noncooperative target during the capturing process is inevitable, which may bring strong vibration perturbation to the base satellite, and potentially alter the position and the attitude of the servicing spacecraft, or even cause failure of on-orbit tasks. This article presents a new and alternative method for passive suppression of spacecraft impact and perturbation during noncooperative spacecraft capture. The passive device based on bioinspired X-shape is installed between the satellite and the capture device. In the capture process, nonlinear damping of the passive isolation structure can significantly reduce impact/vibration perturbation. For performance analysis, dynamic equations of the isolation system are established. Based on which, the relationship between structure parameters and isolation performance is systematically analyzed. Experiments are conducted for verification of the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, an optimal process using the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II optimization method is developed to minimize impact/vibration perturbation effect, and optimal solutions can provide useful reference for the passive isolation system design.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (18) ◽  
pp. 4247-4259 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Mahdi Mofidian ◽  
Hamzeh Bardaweel

Undesired oscillations commonly encountered in engineering practice can be harmful to structures and machinery. Vibration isolation systems are used to attenuate undesired oscillations. Recently, there has been growing interest in nonlinear approaches towards vibration isolation systems design. This work is focused on investigating the effect of nonlinear cubic viscous damping in a vibration isolation system consisting of a magnetic spring with a positive nonlinear stiffness, and a mechanical oblique spring with geometric nonlinear negative stiffness. Dynamic model of the vibration isolation system is obtained and the harmonic balance method (HBM) is used to solve the governing dynamic equation. Additionally, fourth order Runge–Kutta numerical simulation is used to obtain displacement transmissibility of the system under investigation. Results obtained from numerical simulation are in good agreement with those obtained using HBM. Results show that introducing nonlinear damping improves the performance of the vibration isolation system. Nonlinear damping purposefully introduced into the described vibration isolation system appears to eliminate undesired frequency jump phenomena traditionally encountered in quasi-zero-stiffness vibration isolation systems. Compared to its rival linear vibration isolation system, the described nonlinear system transmits less vibrations around resonant peak. At lower frequencies, both nonlinear and linear isolation systems show comparable transmissibility characteristics.


Author(s):  
S. M. Mahdi Mofidian ◽  
Hamzeh Bardaweel

In this work, the effect of nonlinear damping in presence of geometric nonlinearities and magnetic stiffness nonlinearities in vibration isolation system is investigated. The dynamic behavior of the isolation system design is modeled. Harmonic Balance Method (HBM) is used to investigate the dynamic behavior of the vibration isolation system in response to sinusoidal input waveform. Results obtained using the HBM are compared to the results from numerical simulation attained using Runge-kutta method. Results show that introducing nonlinear viscous damping into the vibration isolation system suppresses frequency jump phenomena observed in Duffing-type vibration isolation systems. Additionally, results show that nonlinear damping can suppress transmissibility around resonant peak. For frequencies lower than resonant frequency the effect of nonlinear damping is minimum compared to a linear isolation system. Beyond resonant frequency higher nonlinear damping may slightly alter transmissibility of the isolation system.


1971 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome E. Ruzicka ◽  
Thomas F. Derby

This paper discusses the performance characteristics of single degree-of-freedom vibration isolation systems in which the isolator damping force is proportional to the relative velocity across the isolator raised to an arbitrary power. The concept of equivalent viscous damping is employed to develop a general equation for the equivalent viscous damping ratio which is used to determine approximate isolation system response parameters. A range of isolator damping nonlinearity is studied by varying the relative velocity exponent between 0.5 and 5 for a fixed value of damping. Detailed results for parametric variations in damping are presented for specific values of the relative velocity exponent that correspond to Coulomb, viscous, quadratic, and cubic damping mechanisms.


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