Nonlinear Energy Sink With Uncertain Parameters

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Gourdon ◽  
C. H. Lamarque

The effects of a nonlinear energy sink during the instationary regime are analyzed by introducing uncertain parameters to verify the robustness of the transient spatial energy transfer when parameters are not well known. It was shown that it is possible to passively absorb energy from a linear nonconservative system (damped) structure to a nonlinear attachment weakly coupled to the linear one. This rapid and irreversible transfer of energy, named energy pumping, is studied by taking into account uncertainties on parameters, especially damping (since damping plays a great role and there is a lack of knowledge about it). In essence, the nonlinear subsystem acts as a passive nonlinear energy sink for impulsively applied external vibrational disturbances. The aim is to be able to apply energy pumping in practice where the nonlinear attachment realization will never perfectly reflect the design. Since strong nonlinearities are involved, polynomial chaos expansions are used to obtain information about random displacements. Not only are numerical investigations done, but nonlinear normal modes and the role of damping are also analytically studied, which confirms the numerical studies and shows the supplementary information obtained compared to a parametrical study.

2013 ◽  
Vol 325-326 ◽  
pp. 214-217
Author(s):  
Yong Chen ◽  
Yi Xu

Using nonlinear energy sink absorber (NESA) is a good countermeasure for vibration suppression in wide board frequency region. The nonlinear normal modes (NNMs) are helpful in dynamics analysis for a NESA-attached system. Being a primary structure, a cantilever beam whose modal functions contain hyperbolic functions is surveyed, in case of being attached with NESA and subjected to a harmonic excitation. With the help of Galerkins method and Raushers method, the NNMs are obtained analytically. The comparison of analytical and numerical results indicates a good agreement, which confirms the existence of the nonlinear normal modes.


Author(s):  
E. Gourdon ◽  
S. Coutel ◽  
C. H. Lamarque ◽  
S. Pernot

The present work aims to study the effect of a nonlinear energy sink (NES) with relatively small mass on the dynamics of a coupled system under impulsion with free oscillations. The process of energy transfer is governed by structure of damped nonlinear normal modes of the system. In particular the energy pumping occurs if the nonlinear normal mode is quickly broken down with rather abrupt decrease of both amplitudes, i.e. a bifurcation (brutal change of frequency) is associated with the breakdown of the resonant regime of vibrations. The theoretical effects are experimentally verified with a mechanical experiment which confirms the above results by using a small building model. To identify those frequency migrations, a new wavelet-based methodology, namely quasi-continuous wavelet method, is used.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ameen Ameen Al Shudeifat ◽  
Adnan Salem Saeed

Abstract The frequency-energy plots (FEPs) of two-degree-of-freedom linear structures attached to piecewise nonlinear energy sink (PNES) are generated here and thoroughly investigated. This study provides the FEP analysis of such systems for further understanding of nonlinear targeted energy transfer (TET) by the PNES. The attached PNES incorporates a symmetrical clearance zone of zero stiffness content about its equilibrium position where the boundaries of the zone are coupled with linear structure by linear stiffness elements. In addition, linear viscous damping is selected to be continuous during PNES mass oscillation. The underlying nonlinear dynamical behaviour of the considered structure-PNES systems is investigated by generating the fundamental backbone curves of the FEP and the bifurcated subharmonic resonance branches using numerical continuation methods. Accordingly, interesting dynamical behaviour of the nonlinear normal modes (NNMs) of the structure-PNES system on different backbones and subharmonic resonance branches has been observed. In addition, the imposed wavelet transform frequency spectrums on the FEPs have revealed that the TET takes place where it is dominated by the nonlinear action of the PNES.


2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander F. Vakakis ◽  
D. Michael McFarland ◽  
Lawrence Bergman ◽  
Leonid I. Manevitch ◽  
Oleg Gendelman

We examine passive energy pumping in a system of damped coupled oscillators. This is a one-way, passive and irreversible energy flow from a linear main system to a nonlinear attachment that acts, in essence, as a nonlinear energy sink (NES). Energy pumping is caused by 1:1 resonance captures on resonant manifolds of the damped systems. We show that the NES is capable of absorbing significant portions of the energies generated by transient, broadband external excitations. By performing a series of numerical simulations we confirm that the energy dependence of the nonlinear normal modes (NNMs) of the underlying undamped, unforced system determines, in essence, the resonance capture and energy pumping dynamics in the corresponding damped system. We present numerical simulations of single- and multi-mode energy pumping, that involve isolated resonance captures or resonance capture cascades, respectively. In addition, we discuss methodologies for enhancing the nonlinear energy pumping phenomenon by properly selecting the system parameters. The described technique of passively localizing and locally eliminating externally induced energy provides a new paradigm for vibration and shock isolation of mechanical oscillators.


2006 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. V. Gendelman ◽  
Yu. Starosvetsky

Quasi-periodic response of a linear oscillator attached to nonlinear energy sink with relatively small mass under external sinusoidal forcing in a vicinity of main (1:1) resonance is studied analytically and numerically. It is shown that the quasi-periodic response is exhibited in well-defined amplitude-frequency range of the external force. Two qualitatively different regimes of the quasi-periodic response are revealed. The first appears as a result of linear instability of the steady-state regime of the oscillations. The second one occurs due to interaction of the dynamical flow with invariant manifold of damped-forced nonlinear normal mode of the system, resulting in hysteretic motion of the flow in the vicinity of this mode. Parameters of external forcing giving rise to the quasi-periodic response are predicted by means of simplified analytic model. The model also allows predicting that the stable quasi-periodic regimes appear for certain range of damping coefficient. All findings of the simplified analytic model are verified numerically and considerable agreement is observed.


Author(s):  
Alireza Ture Savadkoohi ◽  
Stephane Pernot ◽  
Claude Henri Lamarque

The crucial point in the field of seismic engineering is to diminish the induced vibration energy as much as possible in a fast and almost irreversible manner. Recently the concept of Nonlinear Energy Sink (NES) has been developed such that the imposed energy to a linear single Degree of Freedom (DoF) substructure is transferred to one or series of strongly nonlinear light attachments; the mechanism is based on a 1:1 resonance capture. Nonlinear attachments can be designed to passively vibrate with any frequency; hence the system is efficient for both of transient and periodic excitations. Some drawbacks of these systems are as follows: they cannot kill the first peak of oscillation in the free time response that is linked to the energy activation of NES; moreover, the transformation of energy vanishes in time due to decrease of the strength of energy pumping. Using NES in series even cannot accelerate the phenomenon of energy pumping and some strange behavior due to the delay in the cooperation of NES in series is noticed. In this study, the transient dynamic behavior of multiple DoF systems with trees of parallel NES at each DoF is investigated, then experimental and numerical results of a four DoF structure with two parallel NES at the top floor are demonstrated and commented upon.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Al-Shudeifat ◽  
Adnan Saeed

Abstract The frequency-energy plots (FEPs) of two-degree-of-freedom linear structures attached to a piecewise nonlinear energy sink (PNES) are generated here and thoroughly investigated. This study provides the FEP analysis of such systems for further understanding to nonlinear targeted energy transfer (TET) by the PNES. The attached PNES to the considered linear dynamical systems incorporates a symmetrical clearance zone of zero stiffness content where the boundaries of the zone are coupled with the linear structure by linear stiffness elements. In addition, linear viscous damping is selected to be continuous during the PNES mass oscillation. The underlying nonlinear dynamical behaviour of the considered structure-PNES systems is investigated by generating the fundamental backbone curves of the FEP and the bifurcated subharmonic resonance branches using numerical continuation methods. Accordingly, interesting dynamical behaviour of the nonlinear normal modes (NNMs) of the structure-PNES system on different backbones and subharmonic resonance branches has been observed. In addition, the imposed wavelet transform frequency spectrums on the FEPs have revealed that the TET takes place in multiple resonance captures where it is dominated by the nonlinear action of the PNES.


Author(s):  
Arash Khalatbari ◽  
Amir Jalali ◽  
Habib Ahmadi ◽  
Kamran Foroutan

In this paper, one of the most efficient passive absorbers, called nonlinear energy sink (NES), is analytically studied. A two-degree-of-freedom system is considered which consists of a linear oscillator (LO) with a base excitation and an NES, called grounded NES (GNES), which is connected to the ground with a nonlinear spring. In this study, we proposed a new arrangement of potential elements in GNES and studied invariant manifolds of the system, as well as the energy absorption performance of the NES. The system is considered in the vicinity of 1:1 resonance to investigate the strongly modulated response (SMR). To this end, after obtaining the equations of motion, the Manevitch complex variable and multiple scale method are applied to solve the equations, analytically. Then, the slow invariant manifold (SIM) is obtained. Also, the energy dissipation ratio of the NES and the percentage of the instantaneous total energy stored in the NES are calculated via the time-amplitude diagram. The results show that when the nonlinear effect decreases, the occurrence of energy pumping is less probable. Also, when the excitation amplitude decreases, the percentage of the instantaneous total energy stored in the NES increases as well as the amount of energy dissipation.


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