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Vibration Absorber
Mohammad Tawfik
Vibration Absorber
The first passive damping
technique we will learn!
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Vibration Absorber
Mohammad Tawfik
For a 2-DOF System
•For the shown 2-DOF
system, the equations
of motion may be
written as:
•Where: fxx KM
2
1
f
f
f
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Vibration Absorber
Mohammad Tawfik
For Harmonic Excitation
•We may write the
equation for each of
the excitation
frequency in the form
of:
•Then we may add
both solutions!
0
11
tCosf
KM
xx
tCosf
KM
22
0
xx
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Vibration Absorber
Mohammad Tawfik
Consider the first force
•We may write the
equation in the form:
•And the solution in
the form:
•Which will give: tCosfKM
1
0
1
xx tCos
x
x
2
1
x xx
2
2
12
tCos
x
x
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Mohammad Tawfik
The equation of motion becomes
•Get x
1() and find out when does it equal
to zero!
00
0
1
2
1
22
221
2
2
1
2
f
x
x
kk
kkk
m
m
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Using the Dynamic Stiffness
Matrix
•Writing down the dynamic stiffness matrix:
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Vibration Absorber
•For the first degree of freedom to be
stationary, i.e. x
1=0
•The excitation frequency have to satisfy:
•Note that this frequency is equal to the
natural frequency of the auxiliary spring-
mass system alone 2
2
m
K
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Homework #2
•Repeat the example of this lecture using
f2=f3=0 and f1=1 AND f1=f2=0 and f3=1
•Plot the response of each mass for each
of the excitation functions
•Comment on the results in the lights of
your understanding of the concept of
vibration absorber
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Mohammad Tawfik
Homework #2 (cont’d)
•Use modal decomposition
(diagonalization) to obtain the same
results.