Vibration Absorbers for Hysterically Damped Mass-Loaded Beams

The beam is assumed to be hysteretically damped and each absorber is a spring-mass-damper system. For each absorber, for a selected mass, the stiffness and damping coefficients are optimized so as to minimize the dynamic response corresponding to the resonance frequency at which they are tuned to operate. The interaction between the absorbers is also accounted for in the analysis