Vibration Suppression of an Elastically Supported Beam With Closely Spaced Natural Frequencies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haizhou Liu ◽  
Hao Gao
Author(s):  
Haizhou Liu ◽  
Hao Gao

Abstract Vibration suppression of distributed parameter systems is of great interest and has a wide range of applications. The dynamic performance of a primary system can be improved by adding dynamic vibration absorbers (DVA). Although the relevant topics have been studied for decades, the trade-off between capability of suppressing multiple resonant peaks and complexity of absorbers has not been well addressed. In this paper, the vibration suppression problem of a uniform Euler-Bernoulli beam with closely spaced natural frequencies is investigated. To achieve desired vibration reduction, a two-DOF DVA is connected to the beam through a pair of a spring and a dashpot. By introducing a virtual ground spring, the parameters of the absorber are determined via extended fixed point theory. The proposed method only requires univariate optimization and is computationally efficient. Numerical examples conducted verify the viability of the proposed method and the effectiveness of a two-DOF DVA in suppressing double resonances.


Author(s):  
Ratiba Fatma Ghachi ◽  
Wael Alnahhal ◽  
Osama Abdeljaber

This paper presents a beam structure of a new metamaterial-inspired dynamic vibration attenuation system. The proposed experimental research presents a designed cantilevered zigzag structure that can have natural frequencies orders of magnitude lower than a simple cantilever of the same scale. The proposed vibration attenuation system relies on the masses places on the zigzag structure thus changing the dynamic response of the system. The zigzag plates are integrated into the host structure namely a cantilever beam with openings, forming what is referred to here as a metastructure. Experimental frequency response function results are shown comparing the response of the structure to depending on the natural frequency of the zigzag structures. Results show that the distributed inserts in the system can split the peak response of the structure into two separate peaks rendering the peak frequency a low transmission frequency. These preliminary results provide a view of the potential of research work on active-controlled structures and nonlinear insert-structure interaction for vibration attenuation.


Author(s):  
Jiawei Gu ◽  
Zhijiang Xie ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Yangjun Pi

When a parallel robot is equipped with kinematic redundancy, it has sufficient capabilities of natural frequency modulation through adjusting geometric configuration. To reduce resonance of a mechanism, this paper investigates the natural frequency modulation of a kinematically redundant planar parallel robot. A double-threshold searching method is proposed for controlling the inverse kinematics solution and keeping the natural frequencies away from the excitation frequency. The effectiveness of modulating the natural frequencies is demonstrated by comparing it with a non-modulation method. The simulation results indicate that, in all directions, the responses are coupled, and every order should be taken into consideration during natural frequency modulation. Compared to the non-modulation method, the proposed method can reduce the resonance amplitude to a certain extent, and the effect of vibration suppression is remarkable.


Author(s):  
D. Younesian ◽  
E. Esmailzadeh ◽  
M. H. Kargarnovin

Vibration suppression of elastically supported beams subjected to moving loads is investigated in this work. For a Timoshenko beam with an arbitrary number of elastic supports, subjected to a constant axial compressive force, and having a tuned mass damper (TMD) installed at the mid-span, the equations of motion are derived and using the Galerkin approach the solution is sought. The optimum values of the frequency and damping ratio are determined both analytically and numerically and presented as some design curves directly applicable in the TMD design for bridge structures. To show the efficiency of the designed TMD, computer simulation for two real bridges, subjected to a S.K.S Japanese high-speed train, is carried out and the results obtained are compared for before and after the installation of the TMD system.


Author(s):  
Said I. Nour ◽  
Mohsen A. Issa

The natural frequencies of vibration of short span bridges used in high-speed rail were investigated. Three different models of increasing complexity were evaluated and their effects on the vibration frequency were compared to the first basic model of simply supported Euler-Bernoulli beam. In the second and third cases, the bridge was modeled as an Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam supported at its two ends by identical spring elements with an equivalent vertical stiffness to simulate elastomeric bearings and soil foundation. The boundary value problem was solved numerically to extract the bridge eigenfrequencies. In the case of Euler-Bernoulli beam, curve fitting techniques were used to deduce accurate simple empirical formulae to calculate the first six natural frequencies of an elastically supported bridge. In the case of a Timoshenko beam, graphical solutions were proposed to compute the fundamental frequency. Results confirmed that the use of Timoshenko beam theory reduces the natural frequency and the consideration of flexible supports further decreases the natural frequency. In the fourth model, the interaction of the track and the bridge was included. The bridge was modeled as an elastically supported beam and the track was modeled as a spring-damper element with an equivalent vertical stiffness resulting from track components like rail pads, cross-ties and ballast. A parametric study was performed to analyze the effects of the track stiffness on the natural frequencies of the bridge. Graphical solutions were presented to quantify the change of the normalized natural frequencies of the system with the increase in the track modulus. Results indicated that the changes in the track modulus have no significant effects in models with rigid supports. A decrease in the fundamental frequency was noticeable with softer track modulus as the support flexibility increased.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof J. Kaliński ◽  
Natalia Stawicka-Morawska ◽  
Marek A. Galewski ◽  
Michał R. Mazur

AbstractThe paper presents an innovative method of solving the problem of vibration suppression during milling of large-size details. It consists in searching for the best conditions for clamping the workpiece based on a rapid modal identification of the dominant natural frequencies only and requires repetitive changes in the tightening torque of the clamping screws. Then, by estimating the minimum work of the cutting forces acting in the direction of the width of the cutting layer, it is possible to predict the best fixing of the workpiece. Application of the method does not require the creation and identification of a computational model of the process or preliminary numerical simulations. The effectiveness of this method was confirmed by the evaluation of the Root Mean Square (RMS) of the vibration level in the time domain observed during the actual face milling process. The worst results were obtained for the configuration of supports tightened with a torque of 90–110 Nm, and the best—with a torque of 50 Nm.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1053-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Talebitooti ◽  
M Fadaee

Vibration suppression of a carbon nanotube–reinforced sandwich beam with magnetorheological fluid core is numerically investigated by employing the differential quadrature method. The beam has functionally graded carbon nanotube–reinforced composite base and constraining layers while its core layer is made of magnetorheological fluid. Four different types of distribution of carbon nanotubes along the thickness direction are considered. The extended rule of mixture is used to explain the effective material properties of the base and constraining layers of the beam. The equations of motion and corresponding boundary conditions are derived by applying Hamilton’s principle, and then these coupled differential equations are transformed into a set of algebraic equation applying the differential quadrature method. Natural frequencies and loss factors are extracted and compared with those available in literature. Convergence study has been performed to verify stability of the method. Effects of various parameters such as magnetic field intensity, mode number, and thickness of the magnetorheological fluid core layer on the natural frequencies and loss factors are studied.


Author(s):  
S-J Jang ◽  
J W Kim ◽  
Y J Choi

The geometrical properties of vibration modes of a single rigid body with one plane of symmetry are presented. When in-plane vibration modes are represented by the axes normal to the plane of symmetry, three intersecting points of those axes and the plane of symmetry constitute two triangles whose orthocentres are coincident with the mass centre and planar couple point, while the induced wrenches of three out-of-plane modes are found to form two triangles whose orthocentres are lying on the mass centre and the perpendicular translation point. Examining these triangles reveals that the triangular areas are proportional to the distributions of the mass and stiffness in the vibrating system and the shapes of the triangles are related to the natural frequencies. A numerical example is provided to verify the proposed findings.


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