Design of a vibration absorber for harmonically forced damped systems

Vibration suppression in harmonically forced viscously damped systems is considered using a new vibration absorber setup. The absorber is placed between the primary system and the supporting ground. The optimal absorber parameters are obtained with the aim of minimizing the maximum of the primary system frequency response. For a given damping ratio of the primary system and mass ratio of the system, the optimal stiffness and damping ratios of the absorber are calculated numerically. Two different numerical approaches are used in solving the problem; the first is based on the genetic algorithm technique and the second on the downhill simplex method. It is shown that an optimal mass ratio exists and it is calculated along with the corresponding absorber parameters for a range of the primary system damping ratio. The utmost optimal parameters associated with the optimal mass ratios are tabulated to be used for the design of such absorbers. The absorber efficiency is discussed and it is shown that this absorber becomes detrimental as the mass ratio is increased or when damping in the primary system is high. The proposed and classical absorbers efficiencies are compared.

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