A Review of Bioinspired Vibration Control Technology

Due to huge demand in engineering, vibration control technology and related studies have always been at the frontiers of research. Although traditional vibration control methods are stable and reliable, they have obvious shortcomings. Through evolution and natural selection, certain body-parts of animals in the natural world have been cleverly constructed and well designed. This provides a steady stream of inspiration for the design of vibration control equipment. The prime objective of this review is to highlight recent advances in the bionic design of vibration control devices. Current bionic vibration control devices were classified, and their bionic principles were briefly described. One kind was the bionic device based on the brain structure of the woodpecker, which is mostly used to reduce vibration at high frequencies. Another kind of bionic device was based on animal leg structure and showed outstanding performance in low frequency vibration reduction. Finally, we briefly listed the problems that need to be solved in current bionic vibration control technology and gave recommendations for future research direction.

A Method Combining Fractal Analysis and Single Channel ICA for Vibration Noise Reduction

Aiming at the problem that real engineering vibration signals are interfered by strong noise, this paper proposes a method combining single channel-independent component analysis (SCICA) and fractal analysis (FD) to reduce the effect of noise on the time-frequency analysis of vibration signals. First, phase space reconstruction is performed on the vibration signal to make the proper input for ICA algorithm. The original is then decomposed into several component signals. The fractal dimension of each component signals is calculated to determine whether the signal should be considered noise. Noisy component signals are then processed by wavelet denoising. Finally, the output signal after noise reduction is reconstructed using the filtered “right” component signals. This paper uses the method to analyze real noisy vibration signal. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

An Inertant Elastic Metamaterial Plate With Extra Wide Low-Frequency Flexural Band Gaps

Arranging inerter arrays in designing metamaterials can achieve low-frequency vibration suppression even with a small configuration mass. In this work, we investigate flexural wave bandgap properties of an elastic metamaterial plate with periodic arrays of inerter-based dynamic vibration absorbers (IDVAs). By extending the plane wave expansion (PWE) method, the inertant elastic metamaterial plate is explicitly formulated in which the interactions of the attached IDVAs and the host plate are considered. Due to the additional degree-of-freedom induced by each IDVA, multiple band gaps are obtained. Along the ΓX direction, the inertant elastic metamaterial plate exhibits two locally resonant (LR) band gaps and one Bragg (BG) band gap. In contrast, along the ΓM direction, two adjacent LR band gaps are obtained. Detailed parametric analyses are conducted to investigate the relationships between the flexural wave bandgap properties and the structural inertant parameters. With a dissipative mechanism added to the IDVAs, extremely wide band gaps in different directions can be further generated. Finally, by adopting an effective added mass technique in the finite element method, displacement transmission and vibration modes of a finite inertant elastic metamaterial plate are obtained. Our investigation indicates that the proposed inertant elastic metamaterial plate has extra-wide low-frequency flexural band gaps and therefore has potential applications in engineering vibration prohibition.

Study on TMD Measure to Suppress Wind-Induced Vibration of Power Transmission Steel Tower

Wind-induced vibration can affect the safety of power transmission tower. Vibration suppression of the high-rise tower is of concern in engineering. Vibration of the tower is mostly the first-order bending modal and this vibration can be suppressed by the tuned mass damper (TMD). This paper developed a TMD vibration damping device using eddy current damper constituted by magnetic steel installed in the vibration mass and fixed copper plate. It is characterized by simple structure and easy installation, and is suitable for wind-induced damage prevention of transmission tower. Focusing on a quadruple-circuit on the same steel tube tower, a vibration reduction test on a real-scale tower conducted. The result shows that the damping ratio of the tower after installed with the TMD device will increase about 3%. The actual test result verifies the effectiveness of the eddy current TMD device.

Features of the Power Characteristics of the Vibration Isolators

In this article the development of the perspective vibration protection device is described. The theory suggests the development of 3D-vibration isolator devices, which have power characteristics with zero stiffness area. A spatial vibroisolator is presented as an elastic element and stiffness compensator in-parallel of this element to obtain this specific area on power characteristic. This methodology allows us to make three-dimensional (3D) vibration isolator with electromagnetic stiffness compensator. This isolator allows to delete the vibration fluctuations in all three axes of space simultaneously. A spatial vibroisolated device consists of an elastic element and parallel 3D-electromagnetic stiffness compensator. An electromagnetic stiffness compensator is a two counter-mounted electromagnetic disks. Each disk is made as six electromagnetic or magnetic disconnected coils, and they are located two by two along three axes of space. The construction of one-dimensional vibration isolator with an electromagnetic stiffness compensator is presented in this article. Three-dimensional vibration isolator can be used in any area of mechanic, engineering, vibration dumping technique, which has a negative effect on human health and devices performance.