An Optimal Design Method for Rubber Dynamic Vibration Absorber
Abstract A dynamic vibration absorber can be used for suppression of excessive amplitude of structures at the resonance. This paper deals with an optimal design method for the dynamic vibration absorber which consists of a mass and a carbon-black filled rubber vulcanizate. First, a system which consists of a main system and the dynamic vibration absorber was analyzed, considering nonlinear dynamic properties possessed by the rubber vulcanizate. Frequency response functions of the system were derived in the form including the rubber geometry and a mass ratio as design parameters. Next, an objective function was composed of the frequency response functions. Minimizing the objective function with respect to the parameters of the rubber geometry for given mass ratio, the optimal values were determined. From the consideration of the results, a new convenient method to determine the optimal values was derived. This method was examined by the experiments. As a result, the validity of the analysis method was verified, and the availability of the present design method for the suppression of vibration was confirmed.