Dynamic Vibration Absorber

About: Dynamic Vibration Absorber is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4764 publications have been published within this topic receiving 49429 citations.

Testing of tuned liquid damper with screens and development of equivalent TMD model

Abstract: The tuned liquid damper (TLD) is increasingly being used as an economical and effective vibration absorber. It consists of a water tank having the fundamental sloshing fluid frequency tuned to the natural frequency of the structure. In order to perform efficiently, the TLD must possess a certain amount of inherent damping. This can be achieved by placing screens inside the tank. The current study experimentally investigates the behaviour of a TLD equipped with damping screens. A series of shake table tests are conducted in order to assess the effect of the screens on the free surface motion, the base shear forces and the amount of energy dissipated. The variation of these parameters with the level of excitation is also studied. Finally, an amplitude dependent equivalent tuned mass damper (TMD), representing the TLD, is determined based on the experimental results. The dynamic characteristics of this equivalent TMD, in terms of mass, stiffness and damping parameters are determined by energy equivalence. The above parameters are expressed in terms of the base excitation amplitude. The parameters are compared to those obtained using linear small amplitude wave theory. The validity of this nonlinear model is examined in the companion paper.

Output feedback H∞ control for active suspension of in-wheel motor driven electric vehicle with control faults and input delay.

Abstract: In this paper, an output feedback H∞ controller is proposed for active suspension of an electric vehicle driven by in-wheel motors with actuator faults and time delay. The dynamic damping in-wheel motor driven system, in which the in-wheel motor is designed as a dynamic vibration absorber (DVA), is developed to improve ride quality and isolate the force transmitted to motor bearings. Furthermore, parameters of vehicle suspension and DVA are optimized based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) to achieve better suspension performance. As some of the states such as the DVA velocity and unsprung mass velocity are difficult to measure, a robust H∞ output feedback controller is developed to deal with the problem of active suspension control with actuator faults and time delay. The proposed controller could guarantee the system's asymptotic stability and H∞ performance, simultaneously satisfying the performance constraints such as road holding, suspension stroke, and actuator limitation. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed output feedback controllers is demonstrated based on the quarter vehicle suspension model under bump and random road excitations.

Cable Vibration Suppression with Inerter-based Absorbers

Abstract: Stay cables are prone to vibrations due to their low inherent damping. This paper presents an approach for systematic identification of beneficial passive vibration absorber layouts consist...