Investigation of the Vibration of a Blade With Friction Damper by HBM

The friction damper has been widely used to reduce the resonant vibration of blades. The most commonly used methods for studying the dynamic behavior of a blade with a friction damper are direct integration methods. Although the harmonic balance method (HBM) is a well-known method for studying nonlinear vibration problems, generally only a one-term approximation has been proposed to study the nonlinear vibration of a frictionally damped blade. In this work, a HMB procedure with a multiterm approximation is proposed. The results show that the steady-state response and other related behavior of a frictionally damped blade can be predicted accurately and quickly by an HBM with a multiterm approximation.