On linear vibrational systems with one dimensional damping II

We are interested in the quadratic eigenvalue problem of damped oscillations where the damping matrix has dimension one. This describes systems with one point damper. A generic example is a linearn-mass oscillator fixed on one end and damped on the other end. We prove that in this case the system parameters (mass and spring constants) are uniquely (up to a multiplicative constant) determined by any given set of the eigenvalues in the left half plane. We also design an effective construction of the system parameters from the spectral data. We next propose an efficient method for solving the Ljapunov equation generated by arbitrary stiffness and mass matrices and a one dimensional damping matrix. The method is particularly efficient if the Ljapunov equation has to be solved many times where only the damping dyadic is varied. In particular, the method finds an optimal position of a damper in some 60n ³ operations. We apply this method to our generic example and show, at least numerically, that the damping is optimal (in the sense that the solution of a corresponding Ljapunov equation has a minimal trace) if all eigenvalues are brought together. We include some perturbation results concerning the damping factor as the varying parameter. The results are hoped to be of some help in studying damping matrices of the rank much smaller than the dimension of the problem.     

Critical damping in nonviscously damped linear systems

In structural dynamics, energy dissipative mechanisms with nonviscous damping are characterized by their dependence on the time-history of the response velocity, mathematically represented by convolution integrals involving hereditary functions. Combination of damping parameters in the dissipative model can lead the system to be overdamped in some (or all) modes. In the domain of the damping parameters, the thresholds between induced oscillatory and non-oscillatory motion are named critical damping surfaces (or critical manifolds, since several parameters can be involved). In this paper the theoretical foundations to determine critical damping surfaces in nonviscously damped systems are established. In addition, a numerical method to obtain critical curves is developed. The approach is based on the transformation of the algebraic equations, which define implicitly the critical curves, into a system of differential equations. The derivations are validated with three numerical methods covering single and multiple degree of freedom systems.     

A novel analysis method for damping characteristic of a type of double-beam systems with viscoelastic layer

The double-beam system with a viscoelastic layer is a classical mechanical model for many beam-type composite structures. However, few studies have been able to optimize the structure from the perspective of structural damping characteristics. To fully understand the damping characteristics of the viscoelastic double-beam system, an analysis method based on dynamic stiffness method and Wittrick-Williams algorithm is presented in this paper. Through numerical case studies, five typical parameters of the viscoelastic double-beam system are discussed to investigate their influence on the damping characteristic of the system. Finally, the conclusions are used to parametric analysis for a kind of double-sheathing cable systems. Results show that the damping coefficient of the connection layer have a significant effect on the damping characteristic of the double-sheathing cable system compared with other design parameters. The proposed methods and conclusions obtained in this paper are helpful to design and optimize the structural parameters of engineering structures, thus having certain application and promotional value.     

Dissipation induced instabilities in continuous non-conservative systems

In this contribution we analyze the stabilizing and destabilizing effect of small damping for rather general class of continuous non-conservative systems, described by the non-self-adjoint boundary eigenvalue problems. Explicit asymptotic expressions obtained for the stability domain allow us to predict when a given combination of the damping parameters leads to increase or to decrease in the critical non-conservative load. The results obtained explain why different types of internal and external damping so surprisingly influence on the stability of non-conservative systems. As a mechanical example the stability of a viscoelastic rod with small internal and external damping, loaded by tangential follower force, is studied in detail. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Stiffness and damping models for the oil film in line contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication and applications in the gear drive

Innovative stiffness and damping models for oil films are developed to account for the impacts in both normal and tangential directions. Given that these models are applied to a gear drive in line contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), the combined stiffness is derived from the stiffness of both the oil film and gear tooth while the combined damping is established from the damping of these parts. The effects of three fundamental parameters (contact force, rotation speed, and tooth numbers) of the gear drive in line contact EHL on the combined stiffness and damping are then investigated. The results reveal that the small normal and tangential stiffness of the lubricant can alleviate meshing impact and shear vibration, while the impact and friction heat can be reduced by using an oil film with either a large normal damping or small tangential damping. Given that its amplitude and fluctuation are closely related to shear rate, effective viscosity, entrainment velocity, and curvature radii, the improved combined stiffness and damping can be obtained by rationally matching the geometric and operating parameters.     

Adaptive Strategy for the Damping Parameters in an Iteratively Regularized Gauss–Newton Method

In this paper, a convergence analysis of an adaptive choice of the sequence of damping parameters in the iteratively regularized Gauss–Newton method for solving nonlinear ill-posed operator equations is presented. The selection criterion is motivated from the damping parameter choice criteria, which are used for the efficient solution of nonlinear least-square problems. The performance of this selection criterion is tested for the solution of nonlinear ill-posed model problems.     

Computational analysis of rates of energy decay in elastic beams

This paper is concerned with the damping of elastic beams of two different kinds. The first model involves the application of viscous damping at a single point either in the interior or at the boundary. The second involves a thermoelastic beam model in which mechanical damping is applied at a boundary. Since the second model is known to be uniformly stabilized via thermal effects alone, an analysis of the relative importance of the thermal and applied mechanical damping is presented. A careful analysis of the effects of rotational forces is also included using realistic model parameters.     

Application of CFRP as a rotor shaft material

Conclusions Theoretical analysis and tests performed on rotors with composite shaft show that there is a sufficiently wide rotation stability region in the rotor parameter space despite comparatively high damping of a polymeric composite with respect to steel. Optimum parameters of the shaft (lay-up, thickness) and bearing (radial stiffness, damping) can be found within this region for each given rotor ensuring a low vibration level at critical frequencies.If rotor system parameters are far enough from the instability threshold, maximum vibration level is observed when rotor passes the first eigenfrequency zone. Further increase of rotation frequency leads to a rotor self-centering, and vibration level does not change passing the second eigenfrequency zone. The rotor response is not sensitive to small changes in rotor system parameters. If rotor system parameters are close to the instability threshold, vibration level at the second eigenfrequency dominates, and a small variation of bearing parameters causes significant changes in the vibration level.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 227–240, March–April, 1995.     

Influence of viscous damping on friction induced travelling waves

We investigate the influence of viscous damping on the shape and stability of travelling waves induced by Coulomb friction between a rotating rigid shaft and an annular elastic cylinder. As expected, the damping causes the travelling wave solutions to become smoother and more stable. It also decreases the amplitude and range of separation solutions and may destroy the travelling waves by grazing bifurcations at large values of the damping parameters. (© 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Fractional derivative and time delay damper characteristics in Duffing–van der Pol oscillators

In this paper, we investigate the damping characteristics of two Duffing–van der Pol oscillators having damping terms described by fractional derivative and time delay respectively. The residue harmonic balance method is presented to find periodic solutions. No small parameter is assumed. Highly accurate limited cycle frequency and amplitude are captured. The results agree well with the numerical solutions for a wide range of parameters. Based on the obtained solutions, the damping effects of these two oscillators are investigated. When the system parameters are identical, the steady state responses and their stability are qualitatively different. The initial approximations are obtained by solving a few harmonic balance equations. They are improved iteratively by solving linear equations of increasing dimension. The second-order solutions accurately exhibit the dynamical phenomena when taking the fractional derivative and time delay as bifurcation parameters respectively. When damping is described by time delay, the stable steady state response is more complex because time delay takes past history into account implicitly. Numerical examples taking time delay and fractional derivative are respectively given for feature extraction and convergence study.     

Damping properties of composites based on interpenetrating polymer networks formed in the presence of compatibilizing additives

From the results of an analysis of the viscoelastic characteristics of semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (semi-IPNs) that are based on a crosslinked polyurethane and a linear polystyrene and are formed in the presence of compatibilizing additives (oligourethane dimethacrylate and ethylene glycol monomethacrylate), their damping ability is est mated. Such parameters as the tangent of mechanical loss (tan δ) at the glass-transition temperature, the temperature interval of effective damping (where tan δ > 0.3), and the loss area under the loss modulus vs. temperature plots are used as the criteria of damping ability. It is shown that the introduction of the compatibilizing additives to the semi-IPNs extends the interval of their effective damping temperature. By varying the composition of the material and the amount of the compatibilizing additives, it is possible to realize a purposeful selection of vibration-damping materials for solving specific technological problems. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 545–558, July–August, 2006.     

Statistical modeling of compressible turbulent channel flow

Several questions that are relevant to turbulence modeling are addressed on the basis of recently obtained direct numerical simulation results of turbulent supersonic channel flow. In particular, this concerns the turbulence frequency production mechanism, wall damping effects on turbulence model parameters, and the relevance of compressibility effects. Limited support is found for usually applied models for the turbulence frequency production and wall damping effects. In contrast to that it is shown that turbulence frequency production mechanisms and wall damping effects may be explained very well on the basis of a frequency scaling that characterizes mean flow changes. The influence of compressibility is found to be relevant. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A smoothing Newton's method for the construction of a damped vibrating system from noisy test eigendata

In this paper we consider an inverse problem for a damped vibration system from the noisy measured eigendata, where the mass, damping, and stiffness matrices are all symmetric positive‐definite matrices with the mass matrix being diagonal and the damping and stiffness matrices being tridiagonal. To take into consideration the noise in the data, the problem is formulated as a convex optimization problem involving quadratic constraints on the unknown mass, damping, and stiffness parameters. Then we propose a smoothing Newton‐type algorithm for the optimization problem, which improves a pre‐existing estimate of a solution to the inverse problem. We show that the proposed method converges both globally and quadratically. Numerical examples are also given to demonstrate the efficiency of our method. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

关于分数阶Maxwell淤泥模型及其在水波衰减问题中的应用

分数阶Maxwell模型可用来模拟粘弹性的海床淤泥．与传统的有理分式模型相比,分数阶Maxwell模型可以用更少的自由参数,较好地描述某些真实淤泥的流变特性．将该分数阶Maxwell模型用于研究淤泥与自由表面水波的相互作用,并得到了线形单色波的衰减率．从水波衰减率曲线中可观测到淤泥层的共振现象,共振时衰减率将达到峰值．对于线形单色波,其衰减率还可表示为各模态衰减率之和,从而可研究某一模态的运动对水波衰减的影响．模态分析表明,当某一模态运动引发共振时,总衰减率由该模态的模态衰减率决定．     

The lifespan for 3D quasilinear wave equations with nonlinear damping terms

In this paper, we study the initial-boundary value problem for a system of nonlinear wave equations, involving nonlinear damping terms, in a bounded domain Ω. The nonexistence of global solutions is discussed under some conditions on the given parameters. Estimates on the lifespan of solutions are also given. Our results extend and generalize the recent results in [K. Agre, M.A. Rammaha, System of nonlinear wave equations with damping and source terms, Differential Integral Equations 19 (2006) 1235-1270], especially, the blow-up of weak solutions in the case of non-negative energy.     

Synthesis of controllers for damping oscillations in dynamical systems under uncertainty

We review the modern approaches to the synthesis of robust H _∞ controllers that ensure optimal damping of oscillations in dynamical systems under uncertainty. In the synthesis method based on Riccati equations, these many-parameter equations can be solved only when the parameters are contained in a bounded parallelepiped with given boundaries. The synthesis of a robust H _∞ output control for systems with unknown bounded parameters is reducible to the solution of an optimization problem constrained by a system of linear matrix inequalities. The proposed controller synthesis algorithms are implemented using standard MATLAB procedures. The efficiency of the proposed methods and algorithms is demonstrated in application to optimal damping of oscillations in a parametrically excited pendulum. __________ Translated from Nelineinaya Dinamika i Upravlenie, No. 4, pp. 87–104, 2004.     

Application of fuzzy sets to transient analysis of space structures

An application of fuzzy sets, in conjunction with finite elements, to the transient analysis of a precision-deployable space structure is presented. The structural members are modeled by using beam finite elements, and the structure's latch joint is modeled by using a spring–damper–Coulomb friction element. Two types of transient response simulations are performed: slow transient load–deflection response and transient impulse response. The first simulation is used to evaluate the stiffness and buckling loads at the structure's tip. The second simulation is used to evaluate the structure's natural frequencies, mode shapes and the precision of the final shape. For each simulation the possibility distributions of various response quantities are obtained. Fuzzy sets are used to represent three beam properties, namely: damping coefficient, bending stiffness, and axial stiffness; as well as two joint parameters: Coulomb friction force and damping coefficient. Fuzzy set techniques provide an insight into the range of possible responses associated with the combined selected variations in the system parameters.     

相位阻尼信道条件下量子斗鸡博弈模型均衡解分析

利用量子博弈的相关理论,以噪音强度和记忆强度为参量,建立了相位阻尼信道条件下的量子斗鸡博弈模型,求出了模型的量子纳什均衡解,讨论了两参量对均衡解稳定性的影响,得出在无记忆相位阻尼信道条件下,当噪音强度小于阈值0.24时,纳什均衡仍然为帕累托最优解,当噪音强度大于0.24时,均衡解演变为另2个均衡解,不再是帕累托最优;在有记忆相位阻尼信道条件下,当噪音强度小于0.24,且记忆强度大于0.5时,均衡解是稳定的.特殊地,当信道是完全记忆时,均衡解的稳定性与噪音强度无关.     

Multimachine power system stabilizer based on optimal multistage fuzzy PID attendant honey bee mating optimization

This article presents a new strategy based on multistage fuzzy PID controller for damping power system stabilizer in multimachine environment using Honey Bee Mating Optimization (HBMO). The proposed technique is a new metaheuristic algorithm which is inspired by mating procedure of the honey bee. Actually, the mentioned algorithm is used recently in power systems which demonstrate the good reflex of this algorithm. Also, finding the parameters of PID controller in power system has direct effect for damping oscillation. Hence, to reduce the design effort and find a better fuzzy system control, the parameters of proposed controller is obtained by HBMO that leads to design controller with simple structure that is easy to implement. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is applied to single machine connected to infinite bus and IEEE 3–9 bus power system. The proposed technique is compared with other techniques through integral of the time multiplied absolute value of the error and figure of demerit. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 234–245, 2016