Theoretical Upper and Lower Bounds of the Performance of an On-Off Damping Dynamic Vibration Absorber Attached to a Multi-Degree-of-Freedom System

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
La Duc Viet ◽  
Phan Thi Tra My

This paper reveals the theoretical (upper and lower) bounds of the performance of an on-off damping vibration absorber attached to an undamped multi-degrees-of-freedom (MDOF) system under harmonic excitation. The solution reduces to the maximization or minimization problem of a simple single-variable function. Among the class of on-off damping controller, which switches the damping level from high to low and back at fixed times every half period, the revealed solutions produce the highest and lowest amplitude–frequency curves. These curves are the good theoretical benchmarks to measure how good or bad an on-off damping controller is. To demonstrate the usefulness of the theoretical bound solutions, two versions of power flow-driven controller are introduced to produce the amplitude–frequency curves tracing the lowest-amplitude curve. A case study of a four-mass system is discussed.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyh-Chin Huang ◽  
Kao-An Lin

The authors designed a novel type of dynamic vibration absorber, called periodic vibration absorber (PVA), for mechanical systems subjected to periodic excitation. Since the periodic rather than single harmonic excitation is themost occurring case in mechanical systems, the design of PVA is hence of engineering significance. The PVA designed in this paper is composed of a dual-beam interconnected with a discrete spring in between. By appropriately choosing the design parameters, the PVA can be of resonance frequencies in integer multiples of the base frequency such that the PVA can absorb significant amount of higher harmonics in addition to the base harmonic. The designed PVA was first experimentally verified for its resonance frequencies. The PVA implemented onto a mechanical system was then tested for its absorption ability. From both tests, satisfying agreement between experiments and numerical calculations has been obtained. The sensitivities of the design variables, such as the discrete spring’s stiffness and location, were discussed as well. The parameters’ sensitivities provided us with the PVA’s adjustable room for excitation frequency’s mismatch. Numerical results showed that within 3% of frequency mismatch, the PVA still performed better than a single DVA via adjusting the spring’s constant and location. All the results proved that the novel type of PVA could be a very effective device for vibration reduction of mechanical systems subjected to periodic excitation.


Author(s):  
Vu Duc Phuc ◽  
Tong Van Canh ◽  
Pham Van Lieu

Dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) is a simple and effective device for vibration absorption used in many practical applications. Determination of suitable parameters for DVA is of significant importance to achieve high vibration reduction effectiveness. This paper presents a   method to find the optimal parameters of a DVA attached to a linear damped rotary system excited by harmonic torque. To this end, a closed-form formula for the optimum tuning parameter is derived using the fixed-point theory based on an assumption that the damped rotary systems are lightly or moderately damped. The optimal damping ratio of DVA is found by solving a set of non-linear equations established by the Chebyshev's min-max criterion. The performance of the proposed optimal DVA is compared with that obtained by existing optimal solution in literature. It is shown that the proposed optimal parameters are possible to obtain superior vibration suppression compared to existing optimal formula. Extended simulations are carried out to examine the performance of the optimally designed DVA and the sensitivity of the optimum parameters. The simulation results show that the improvement of the vibration performance on damped rotary system can be as much as 90% by using DVA.


Author(s):  
Alberto Doria ◽  
Cristian Medè ◽  
Giulio Fanti ◽  
Daniele Desideri ◽  
Alvise Maschio ◽  
...  

The possibility of improving the performance of a piezoelectric harvester by means of a cantilever dynamic vibration absorber (CDVA) is investigated. The CDVA cancels the original mode of vibration of the harvester and generates two new modes. Some prototypes are developed using a mathematical model for predicting the natural frequencies of the coupled system. Impulsive tests were performed on prototypes. Experimental results show that a small CDVA can lower the main resonance frequency of an harvester of the same extent as a larger tip mass. The measured voltage shows also an high frequency resonance peak, which can be exploited for collecting energy. A multi-physics numerical model is developed for performing modal analysis and stress analysis. Numerical results show that the stress inside the piezoelectric material of the harvester with CDVA results smaller than the stress inside the harvester with a tip mass tuned to the same frequency.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1081
Author(s):  
Kaiwei Wu ◽  
Chuanbo Ren ◽  
Yuanchang Chen ◽  
Sujuan Shao ◽  
Jilei Zhou ◽  
...  

The existing available research outcomes on vibration attenuation control for time-delay feedback indicate that, for the delay dynamic vibration absorber with fixed time-delay control parameters, under harmonic excitation, a good vibration attenuation control effect occurs on the vibration of the main system. However, the effect is not obvious for complex excitation. Aiming at the above problems, in a short time interval, a harmonic excitation with the same displacement size as the complex excitation was established. Then, by calculating its equivalent amplitude and equivalent frequency, a harmonic equivalent method for complex excitation was proposed in this paper. The time-delay parameters were adjusted according to the equivalent frequency of harmonic equivalent excitation in real time; therefore, a good vibration attenuation control effect was obtained through the delay dynamic vibration absorber in the discrete time interval. In this paper, research on a time-varying delay dynamic vibration absorber was conducted by taking the two-degree-of-freedom vibration system with a delay dynamic vibration absorber as an example. The simulation results show that the proposed control method can reduce the vibration of the main system by about 30% compared with the passive vibration absorber. This can obviously improve the performance of the time-delay dynamic vibration absorber. It provides a new technical idea for the design of vehicle active frame system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Shemshadi ◽  
Mahdi Karimi ◽  
Farzad Veysi

Vibrations due to mechanical excitation and internal and external fluid flow can cause fatigue in pipelines and leaks in fittings. A beam-based dynamic vibration absorber (beam DVA) is a device comprising an L-shaped beam with a concentrated mass at its free end that can be used to absorb and dissipate vibrations in the pipeline. In this paper, a mathematical equation is extracted to design the beam DVA using the dimensional analysis (DA) method and data recorded from 120 experimental tests. In the experimental studies, the pipes are fabricated in 1-inch, 2-inch, and 3-inch sizes. Each pipe is subjected to harmonic excitation at different frequencies, and the amplitude of vibration of the pipe is evaluated by changes in the geometric characteristics of beam DVA and concentrated mass. The proposed methodology is validated using the finite element method and simulation in the SIMULINK/MATLAB. The results showed that, out of the nine effective dimensionless parameters identified in pipe vibration control, mass ratio and stiffness ratio have the highest and lowest impacts on pipe vibration absorption, respectively.


Author(s):  
M Rajarathinam ◽  
Shaikh Faruque Ali

Abstract An energy harvesting dynamic vibration absorber is studied to suppress undesirable vibrations in a host structure as well as to harvest electrical energy from vibrations using piezoelectric transduction. The present work studies the feasibility of using vibration absorber for harvesting energy under random excitation and in presence of parametric uncertainties. A two degrees of freedom model is considered in the analytical formulation for the host along with the absorber. A separate equation is used for energy generation from piezoelectric material. Two studies are reported here, (i) with random excitation where the base input is considered to be Gaussian; (ii) parametric uncertainty is considered with harmonic excitation. Under random base excitation the analytical results show that, with the proper selection of parameters, harvested electrical energy can be increased along with the reduction in vibration of the host structure. Graphs are reported showing trade-off between harvested energy and vibration control. Whereas, Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to analyze the system with parametric uncertainty. This showed that the mean harvested power decreases with an increase in uncertainties in the natural frequency as well as damping ratio. In addition, optimal electrical parameters for obtaining maximum power for the case of uncertain parameters are also reported in this study.


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