Understanding Damping in Acoustic and Mechanical Systems

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Goyder
Keyword(s):  
Linear System ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Mechanical Systems ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Vibration Modes ◽  
Acoustic System ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Modes Of Vibration ◽  
Straightforward Extension

A system with damping is much more difficult to model than an undamped system. In particular, the effect of damping on a multi-degree-of-freedom system is not a straightforward extension of the damping found in a single-degree-of-freedom system. The complications of a multi-degree-of-freedom system are first examined by investigating the acoustic modes of a pipe with energy leaking from the boundaries. This system can be modelled exactly and identifies the complexities that need to be understood. Although this is a linear system it is found that in contradistinction to an undamped system it cannot be separated into individual modes of vibration. Modes which bear some similarity to undamped modes can be found but these are always coupled by damping effects which, to add more complications, may involve some modes being active and supplying energy to other modes. The original acoustic system is simplified to systems of finite and eventually two-degrees-of-freedom in an effort to understand the effects of damping. It is found that when damping is added to a system some damping ratios may decrease moving the system into an unfavourable state. Overall some general properties of damping, for example, the constancy of average damping, are deduced.

Understanding Damping in Linear Multi-Degree of Freedom Systems

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Goyder
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Acoustic Modes ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Modes Of Vibration ◽  
Damping Effects ◽  
Two Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Straightforward Extension

A system with damping is much more difficult to model than an undamped system. In particular, the effect of damping on a multi-degree-of-freedom system is not a straightforward extension of the damped found in single-degree-of-freedom systems. The complications of a multi-degree-of-freedom system are first examined by investigating the acoustic modes of a pipe with energy leaking from one boundary. This system can be modelled exactly. It is found that individual modes of vibration cannot be separated and are always coupled by damping effects which may involve some modes being active and not passive. Furthermore if damping sinks are increased the damping ratios can either increase or decrease. The damping of systems with fewer degrees-of-freedom are then examined to determine how damping coupling behaves. It is found that a two-degree-of-freedom system exhibits increasing and decreasing damping values as the magnitude of a damping sink is varied.

scholarly journals Symmetric waterbomb origami

2016 ◽  
Vol 472 (2190) ◽  
pp. 20150846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Huijuan Feng ◽  
Jiayao Ma ◽  
Rui Peng ◽  
Zhong You
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Deployable Structures ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Folding Process ◽  
Multiple Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Flat Roofs ◽  
Additional Constraints

The traditional waterbomb origami, produced from a pattern consisting of a series of vertices where six creases meet, is one of the most widely used origami patterns. From a rigid origami viewpoint, it generally has multiple degrees of freedom, but when the pattern is folded symmetrically, the mobility reduces to one. This paper presents a thorough kinematic investigation on symmetric folding of the waterbomb pattern. It has been found that the pattern can have two folding paths under certain circumstance. Moreover, the pattern can be used to fold thick panels. Not only do the additional constraints imposed to fold the thick panels lead to single degree of freedom folding, but the folding process is also kinematically equivalent to the origami of zero-thickness sheets. The findings pave the way for the pattern being readily used to fold deployable structures ranging from flat roofs to large solar panels.

Linearization Equations for Vibration Induced by Oscillatory Flow

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 946-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
P-T. D. Spanos ◽  
T. W. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Linear System ◽  
Oscillatory Flow ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Approximate Determination ◽  
Equivalent Linearization ◽  
Mean Velocity ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Nonzero Mean

Equations are presented for the approximate determination through equivalent linearization of the response of a single-degree-of-freedom linear system to excitation induced by oscillatory flow with nonzero mean velocity. The reliability of the proposed methodology is examined.

A guide to classical flutter

1988 ◽  
Vol 92 (919) ◽  
pp. 339-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. T. Niblett
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Normal Modes ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Structural Coupling ◽  
Two Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Lifting Surface ◽  
Classical Flutter ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Summary First essentials of classical flutter are demonstrated by a comprehensive study of the behaviour of a lifting surface with two degrees of freedom under the action of airforces limited to those in phase with displacement. Structural coupling between the coordinates is eliminated by taking the normal modes to be the deflection coordinates, and this results in conditions for stability with particularly concise forms. It is shown that the flutter stability can be seen to be very much a matter of the relative amplitudes of heave and pitch in the normal modes. In-quadrature airforces are then introduced and it is shown that they have little effect when the flutter is severe. They are of more importance in the milder forms of flutter, the extreme of which are shown to be little different from instabilities in a single degree of freedom.

scholarly journals Optimization of Multiple Tuned Mass Damper (MTMD) Parameters for a Primary System Reduced to a Single Degree of Freedom (SDOF) through the Modal Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1389
Author(s):  
Piotr Wielgos ◽  
Robert Geryło
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Research Work ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Primary System ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Modal Approach ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Impact

The research paper presents a novel approach toward constructing motion equations for structures with attached MTMDs (multiple tuned mass dampers). A primary system with MDOF (multiple dynamic degrees of freedom) was reduced to an equivalent system with a SDOF (single degree of freedom) through the modal approach, and equations from additional MTMDs were added to a thus-created system. Optimization based on ℌ2 and ℌ∞ for the transfer function associated with the generalized displacement of an SDOF system was applied. The research work utilized GA (genetic algorithms) and SA (simulated annealing method) optimization algorithms to determine the stiffness and damping parameters for individual TMDs. The effect of damping and stiffness (MTMD tuning) distribution depending on the number of TMDs was also analyzed. The paper also reviews the impact of primary system mass change on the efficiency of optimized MTMDs, as well as confirms the results of other authors involving greater MTMD effectiveness relative to a single TMD.

scholarly journals Optimization of Multiple Tuned Mass Damper (MTMD) Parameters for a Primary System Reduced to a Single Degree of Freedom (SDOF) Through the Modal Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Wielgos ◽  
Robert Geryło
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Research Work ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Primary System ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Modal Approach ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Stiffness And Damping ◽  
The Impact

The research paper presents a new approach towards constructing motion equations for structures with attached MTMDs (multiple tuned mass dampers). A primary system, with MDOF (multiple dynamic degrees of freedom) was reduced to an equivalent system with a SDOF (single degree of freedom) through the modal approach, and equations from additional MTMDs were added to a thus-created system. Optimization based on H2 and H∞ for the transfer function associated with the generalized displacement of an SDOF system. The research work utilized GA (genetic algorithms) and SA (simulated annealing method) optimization algorithms to determine the stiffness and damping parameters for individual TMDs. The effect of damping and stiffness (MTMD tuning) distribution depending on the number of TMDs was also analyzed. The paper also reviews the impact of primary system mass change on the efficiency of optimized MTMDs, as well as confirms the results of other authors involving greater MTMD effectiveness relative to a single TMD.

Effects of Clearance on Normal Mode Frequencies of a Nonsmooth System

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Linear System ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Normal Mode ◽  
Natural Frequencies ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Nonsmooth System ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Equivalent Linear ◽  
Frequency Relation

Abstract The effects of a clearance or interference on the normal mode frequencies of a two-dof system with bilinear stiffness and without damping are investigated through various modifications of the bilinear frequency relation. First, the exact bilinear natural frequencies of a single degree-of-freedom system are analytically obtained in terms of the amount of clearance and the strength of nonlinearity, and an equivalent linear system is derived. These results are in turn used to construct three methods which approximate the bilinear frequencies for the 2-dof system in which the resulting approximate frequencies are compared with those obtained from numerical simulations. The results demonstrate how these bilinear normal mode frequencies vary with the magnitude of the clearance/interference and thus point toward the need of including such effects in methods which utilize the bilinear frequency relation.

scholarly journals Higher order stochastic averaging method for mechanical systems having two degrees of freedom

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Nguyen Duc Tinh
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Averaging Method ◽  
Stochastic Averaging ◽  
Stochastic Averaging Method ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Approximation Solution ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Two Degree Of Freedom

Higher order stochastic averaging method is widely used for investigating single-degree-of-freedom nonlinear systems subjected to white and coloured random noises.In this paper the method is further developed for two-degree-of-freedom systems. An application to a system with cubic damping is considered and the second approximation solution to the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation is obtained.

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