DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF VIBRATION ISOLATION SYSTEM WITH CUBIC STIFFNESS AND HYSTERESIS 1)

包含立方刚度和Bouc-Wen 型滞回的隔振系统具有复杂的非线性动力学特性。系统无阻尼响应模型可基于无滞回恢复力建立,利用谐波平衡法和泰勒展开求得近似解析解。系统有阻尼响应模型可利用解析/数值联合方法求解,该方法基于谐波平衡法和Levenberg-Marquardt 迭代算法,对于滞回产生的多值非光滑函数项,先计算时域响应再通过快速傅里叶变换求解谐波项系数。上述方法在含水平绞制梁的非线性隔振系统分析中得到有效应用。分析表明,在Bouc-Wen 型滞回和立方刚度的综合影响下,隔振系统呈现渐软–渐硬特性,滞回阻尼和线性阻尼都可以有效抑制共振,但前者高频隔振效果优于后者。     

Dynamic instabilities in coupled oscillators induced by geometrically nonlinear damping

The dynamics of a system of coupled oscillators possessing strongly nonlinear stiffness and damping is examined. The system consists of a linear oscillator coupled to a strongly nonlinear, light attachment, where the nonlinear terms of the system are realized due to geometric effects. We show that the effects of nonlinear damping are far from being purely parasitic and introduce new dynamics when compared to the corresponding systems with linear damping. The dynamics is analyzed by performing a slow/fast decomposition leading to slow flows, which in turn are used to study transient instability caused by a bifurcation to 1:3 resonance capture. In addition, a new dynamical phenomenon of continuous resonance scattering is observed that is both persistent and prevalent for the case of the nonlinearly damped system: For certain moderate excitations, the transient dynamics “tracks” a manifold of impulsive orbits, in effect transitioning between multiple resonance captures over definitive frequency and energy ranges. Eventual bifurcation to 1:3 resonance capture generates the dynamic instability, which is manifested as a sudden burst of the response of the light attachment. Such instabilities that result in strong energy transfer indicate potential for various applications of nonlinear damping such as in vibration suppression and energy harvesting.     

Enhanced damping of a cantilever beam by axial parametric excitation

A uniform cantilever beam under the effect of a time-periodic axial force is investigated. The beam structure is discretized by a finite-element approach. The linearised equations of motion describing the planar bending vibrations of the beam structure lead to a system with time-periodic stiffness coefficients. The stability of the system is investigated by a numerical method based on Floquet’s theorem and an analytical approach resulting from a first-order perturbation. It is demonstrated that the parametrically excited beam structure exhibits enhanced damping properties, when excited near a specific parametric combination resonance frequency. A certain level of the forcing amplitude has to be exceeded to achieve the damping effect. Upon exceeding this value, the additional artificial damping provided to the beam is significant and works best for suppression of vibrations of the first vibrational mode of the cantilever beam.     

一类阻尼控制半主动隔振系统的解析研究

研究了一类基于相对速度反馈的含立方刚度的单自由度非线性半主动隔振系统.通过平均法得到了系统分别在基于加速度-相对速度反馈的加速度驱动阻尼控制策略、速度-相对速度反馈的天棚阻尼控制策略和位移-相对速度反馈的地棚阻尼控制策略下主共振响应的近似解析解,并利用数值解验证了近似解析解的准确性.通过 Lyapunov 理论对不同控制策略下系统的稳定性进行了分析,讨论了系统参数对控制效果的影响.分析结果表明,对 3 种基于相对速度反馈的控制策略进行解析研究时,切换条件中的控制参数具有相同的表达式;在抑制共振响应振幅方面,基于速度-相对速度反馈的天棚阻尼控制策略在低频时的减振效果最好,而基于加速度-相对速度反馈的加速度驱动阻尼控制策略在高频时的减振效果最优;在抑制瞬态响应振幅方面,基于速度-相对速度反馈的天棚阻尼控制策略的减振效果最好.此类解析研究方法可应用到其他半主动开关控制策略中,为半主动隔振系统的控制策略研究提供了有效的方法和手段.      

DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS ON A KIND OF SEMI-ACTIVE VIBRATION ISOLATION SYSTEMS WITH DAMPING CONTROL 1)

研究了一类基于相对速度反馈的含立方刚度的单自由度非线性半主动隔振系统.通过平均法得到了系统分别在基于加速度-相对速度反馈的加速度驱动阻尼控制策略、速度-相对速度反馈的天棚阻尼控制策略和位移-相对速度反馈的地棚阻尼控制策略下主共振响应的近似解析解,并利用数值解验证了近似解析解的准确性.通过 Lyapunov 理论对不同控制策略下系统的稳定性进行了分析,讨论了系统参数对控制效果的影响.分析结果表明,对 3 种基于相对速度反馈的控制策略进行解析研究时,切换条件中的控制参数具有相同的表达式;在抑制共振响应振幅方面,基于速度-相对速度反馈的天棚阻尼控制策略在低频时的减振效果最好,而基于加速度-相对速度反馈的加速度驱动阻尼控制策略在高频时的减振效果最优;在抑制瞬态响应振幅方面,基于速度-相对速度反馈的天棚阻尼控制策略的减振效果最好.此类解析研究方法可应用到其他半主动开关控制策略中,为半主动隔振系统的控制策略研究提供了有效的方法和手段.     

Reducing force transmissibility in multiple degrees of freedom structures through anti-symmetric nonlinear viscous damping

In the present study, the Volterra series theory is adopted to theoretically investigate the force transmissibility of multiple degrees of freedom (MDOF) structures, in which an isolator with nonlinear anti-symmetric viscous damping is assembled. The results reveal that the anti-symmetric nonlinear viscous damping can significantly reduce the force transmissibility over all resonance regions for MDOF structures with little effect on the transmissibility over non-resonant and isolation regions. The results indicate that the vibration isolators with an anti-symmetric damping characteristic have great potential to solve the dilemma occurring in the design of linear viscously damped vibration isolators where an increase of the damping level reduces the force transmissibility over resonant frequencies but increases the transmissibility over non-resonant frequency regions. This work is an extension of a previous study in which MDOF structures installed on the mount through an isolator with cubic nonlinear damping are considered. The theoretical analysis results are also verified by simulation studies.     

含分数阶Bingham模型的阻尼减振系统时滞半主动控制

针对基于磁流变液阻尼器的半主动控制系统中存在的时滞问题, 采用了一种将可控的时滞变量引入半主动控制切换条件的控制策略, 研究了考虑时滞的天棚阻尼控制切换条件对半主动阻尼减振系统的影响, 分析了含有分数阶Bingham模型的线性刚度系统在基础激励下的振动特性. 利用平均法得到了系统在含时滞半主动控制策略下主共振响应的近似解析解, 根据Lyapunov理论分析了系统的稳定性. 通过数值解验证了近似解析解的准确性, 二者具有较好的一致性. 利用近似解析解分析了固定激励频率下时滞对系统幅频响应特性的影响, 以及主共振峰值响应和共振频率随时滞变化的特性规律. 结果表明, 含时滞的半主动控制系统存在一个小时滞区间, 使得系统的振幅在主共振峰对应的频率附近低于不考虑时滞时系统的振幅, 且存在最优时滞使得系统的振幅大幅度降低; 而大时滞的引入会加剧系统的振动, 导致系统的颤振. 确定了基于分数阶Bingham模型的线性刚度系统在天棚阻尼半主动控制下的时滞选取原则, 为振动系统半主动阻尼控制中的时滞选取提供了参考.      

Heteroclinic connections in the 1:4 resonance problem using nonlinear transformation method

In this paper, the method of nonlinear time transformation is applied to obtain analytical approximation of heteroclinic connections in the problem of stability loss of self-oscillations near 1:4 resonance. As example, we consider the case of parametric and self-excited oscillator near the 1:4 subharmonic resonance. The method uses the unperturbed heteroclinic connection in the slow flow to determine conditions under which the perturbed heteroclinic connection persists. The results show that for small values of damping, the nonlinear time transformation method can predict well both the square and clover heteroclinic connection near the 1:4 resonance. The analytical finding is confirmed by comparisons to the results obtained by numerical simulations.     

分数阶达芬振子的超谐与亚谐联合共振

研究了含分数阶微分项的达芬(Duffing)振子的超谐与亚谐联合共振.采用平均法得到了系统的一阶近似解析解,提出了超、亚谐联合共振时等效线性阻尼和等效线性刚度的概念.建立了联合共振定常解幅频曲线的解析表达式,并对联合共振幅频响应的近似解析解和数值解进行了比较,二者吻合良好,证明了求解过程及近似解析解的正确性.然后,将等效线性阻尼和等效线性刚度的概念与传统整数阶系统进行比较,证明分数阶微分项不仅起着阻尼的作用同时还起着刚度的作用.最后,通过数值仿真研究了不同的分数阶微分项系数和阶次对联合共振幅频曲线多值性和跳跃现象的影响,并与单一频率下超谐共振或亚谐共振进行了对比.研究发现,分数阶微分项系数与阶次不仅影响着系统的响应幅值、共振频率,同时还对系统的周期解个数、发生区域面积、发生先后等有重要影响.并且,在不同的基本参数下该系统分别表现出单独超谐共振、单独亚谐共振以及超谐共振和亚谐共振同时存在的现象.这些结果对系统动力学特性的研究具有重要意义.     

Analytical investigation of an SDOF building structure equipped with a friction damper

The purpose of this study is to investigate analytically a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) building structure equipped with a friction damper for assessing its vibration control effect. Friction dampers are installed between stories to reduce inter-story displacements of building structures subjected to external loading. They are in general regarded to generate damping forces characterized by Coulomb damping, of which the directions are opposite to the inter-story velocities of building structures. Hence, the building structure model with friction dampers can be represented by a mass-spring-viscous-Coulomb damping system. The building response reduction as a result of damper installation can be provided by observing the damping ratio rather than the friction force contributed by the dampers. Since a large friction damper force is required to attenuate the response of the building due to strong excitation, friction force ratio is directly related to building response reduction, which is the friction force of the damper versus external force. Therefore, damping and friction force ratios are key parameters, playing a main role in selecting an optimal friction damper, which satisfies target response reduction. This study first identifies an SDOF building structure installed with a friction damper for free vibration with initial conditions. A?closed-form expression of normalized displacement is derived in terms of friction force ratio in the time domain. Peak and valley of displacements are also found and then the time when the structure stops is derived with recursive interval number. This study is extended to identify steady-state vibration of the structure by deriving closed-form solution in case of resonance in terms of friction force ratio. Then, the dissipated energy balance is identified for both free and steady-state vibrations. Finally, equivalent viscous damping ratios are derived by using friction force ratio based on dissipated energy balance equation. The derived equations in terms of viscous damping ratio and friction force ratio can provide insight to design a friction damper for reducing structural displacement under external loadings.     

Effects of anti-symmetric nonlinear viscous damping on the force transmissibility of multi-degree of freedom structures

In the present study, the concept of the output frequency response function is applied to theoretically investigate the force transmissibility of multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) structures with a nonlinear anti-symmetric viscous damping. The results reveal that an anti-symmetric nonlinear viscous damping can significantly reduce the transmissibility over all resonance regions for MDOF structures while it has almost no effect on the transmissibility over non-resonant and isolation regions. The results indicate that the vibration isolators with an anti-symmetric damping characteristic have great potential to overcome the dilemma in the design of linear viscously damped vibration isolators where an increase of the damping level reduces the force transmissibility over resonant region but increases the transmissibility over non-resonant regions.     

复合干摩擦的准零刚度隔振系统的亚谐共振

利用增量平均法研究了复合干摩擦阻尼器的准零刚度非线性隔振系统在外部简谐激励作用下的1/3次亚谐共振. 首先利用平均法得到了复合干摩擦的准零刚度隔振系统的主共振近似解析解, 然后在系统主共振近似解析解的基础上将系统的亚谐共振响应看作增量, 并利用平均法得到了准零刚度隔振系统的亚谐共振近似解析解. 利用李雅普诺夫方法得到了准零刚度隔振系统主共振和亚谐共振稳态解的稳定性条件, 并推导了系统1/3次亚谐共振的存在条件. 根据近似解析解分别得到了复合干摩擦的准零刚度隔振系统的主共振和亚谐共振力传递率. 利用数值解验证了准零刚度隔振系统主共振和亚谐共振近似解析解的准确性. 利用系统的近似解析解详细分析了准零刚度参数和干摩擦力对系统主共振和亚谐共振的幅频响应以及力传递特性的影响. 分析结果表明, 通过选取合适的干摩擦力参数, 可以消除准零刚度隔振系统在主共振区域的亚谐共振. 通过复合干摩擦阻尼器不但可以提高准零刚度隔振系统在低频区域的振幅抑制效果, 而且可以降低准零刚度隔振系统的起始隔振频率, 但是会增大系统在有效隔振频带内的力传递率.      

A New Testing Machine for the Dynamic Characterization of High Strength Low Damping Fiber Materials

This work describes a novel method for measuring the damping, the elastic modulus and the non-linear behavior of high strength low damping fiber materials such as para-aramids, silicon carbide (SiC) and carbon. The method is based on resonant response characterization of a spring-mass system excited by a sine-wave forcing term which is applied as a vertical force to the suspended mass. The damping is obtained from the measured resonance quality factor Q, the elasticity modulus is calculated from the resonance frequency, and the non-linear coefficient is obtained with the backbone approach from resonance profile variations as a function of the forcing term amplitude. It is argued that the method is very sensitive, to the point that a maximum excitation amplitude of the order of a few percent of resistance is sufficient to obtain an estimate of the non-linear coefficient. This claim is supported by experimental results. A testing machine is also discussed, which provides the necessary sensitivity at such small excitation amplitudes and the capability of evaluating very small damping values, as expected in high strength low damping fiber materials. The sensitivity is guaranteed by an optical position sensor with sub-micron resolution. To evaluate small damping values, particular care has been taken to ensure that energy dispersions in the generator are much smaller than energy dispersions in the fibers themselves. Examples of dynamic characterization are shown for para-aramid, silicon carbide, and carbon fibers.     

Study of the effects of cubic nonlinear damping on vibration isolations using Harmonic Balance Method

In the present study, Harmonic Balance Method (HBM) is applied to investigate the performance of passive vibration isolators with cubic nonlinear damping. The results reveal that introducing either cubic nonlinear damping or linear damping could significantly reduce both the displacement transmissibility and the force transmissibility of the isolators over the resonance region. However, at the non-resonance region where frequency is lower than the resonant frequency, both the linear damping and the cubic nonlinear damping have almost no effect on the isolators. At the non-resonance region with higher frequency, increasing the linear damping has almost no effects on the displacement transmissibility but could raise the force transmissibility. In addition, the influence of the cubic nonlinear damping on the isolators is dependent on the type of the disturbing force. If the strength of the disturbing force is constant and independent of the excitation frequency, then the effect of cubic nonlinear damping on both the force and displacement transmissibility would be negligible. But, when the strength of the disturbing force is dependent of the excitation frequency, increasing the cubic nonlinear damping could slightly reduce the relative displacement transmissibility and increase the absolute displacement transmissibility but could significantly increase the force transmissibility. These conclusions are of significant importance in the analysis and design of nonlinear passive vibration isolators.     

几何非线性摩擦阻尼隔振系统动力学行为研究

非线性隔振系统由于具有较线性系统更优的隔振性能,因此在工程中应用广泛.本文通过配置与被隔振对象的运动方向相垂直的库伦摩擦阻尼器,构建了几何非线性摩擦阻尼模型.由于引入了几何非线性,因此其摩擦力与位移正相关,这与传统与位移无关摩擦力模型有显著不同.首先,建立了具有几何非线性摩擦阻尼的数学模型以及隔振系统的受迫振动方程;然后,使用谐波平衡法求解了动力学方程,并使用数值仿真方法验证了谐波平衡法求解的准确性;最后,研究了几何非线性摩擦阻尼隔振器的绝对位移传递率和相对位移传递率.研究结果表明,在库伦摩擦阻尼选择适当,非线性摩擦阻尼系统可以在保持高频振动衰减效果的前提下,显著降低系统共振峰,其性能优于传统的恒定摩擦阻尼隔振模型.同时,几何非线性摩擦阻尼系统能够避免传统摩擦阻尼系统中的“锁定”现象,从传递率角度来说,不利于共振峰控制;但从激励环境改变引发隔振系统失效的角度来看,几何非线性摩擦阻尼系统可以拓宽系统对激励幅值的适应范围,避免隔振系统失效.本文的研究结果对此类隔振系统的设计和摩擦阻尼参数的选择具有通用的指导意义.      

The force transmissibility of MDOF structures with a non-linear viscous damping device

In the present study, the concept of the Output Frequency Response Function (OFRF), recently proposed by the authors, is applied to theoretically investigate the force transmissibility of MDOF structures with a cubic non-linear viscous damping device. The results analytically show that the introduction of cubic non-linear damping can significantly reduce the transmissibility over all resonance regions for a Multiple Degree of Freedom (MDOF) structure and at the same time leave the transmissibility over the isolation region virtually unaffected. The analysis also indicates that a strong linear damping may shift the system resonances and compromise the beneficial effects of cubic non-linear viscous damping on the force transmissibility of MDOF structures. This suggests that a less significant linear damping together with a strong cubic non-linear damping can be used in MDOF structures to achieve a desired vibration isolation performance. This research work has a significant implication for the design of viscously damped MDOF structures for a wide range of practical applications.     

Random vibrations of an isochronous SDOF bilinear system

A single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system with bilinear restoring force and damping characteristics is excited by a white-noise force. For the case of small damping the asymptotic method of quasi-conservative stochastic averaging is applied, which reduces the problem to that of a single Ito stochastic differential equation (SDE) for total energy of the response. A special case of the isochronous system is considered, where the static equilibrium position coincides with the slope discontinuity point of the system's characteristics, such as that of a moored body without slack and pretension in the mooring cable. For this case an analytical solution is obtained for autocorrelation function of the response energy. For the limiting case of a vibroimpact system the results are shown to agree with the exact solution.     

Forced Vibration of Continuous System with Unsymmetrical Collision Characteristics

This paper deals with steady-state response of a continuous system with nonlinear boundary conditions which are motion-limiting constraint. An analytical method of approximate solution for the continuous system with unsymmetrical collision characteristics in which the beam end collides with a stop once in one period of its vibration is presented. Some numerical results of the approximate solution are shown. Contrary to the case of continuous system with symmetrical collision characteristics, the resonance curves of nonlinear response of approximate solution are shown as discontinuous line. Some numerical results of a continuous system with no hysteresis damping are compared with those of a continuous system with hysteresis damping and a single-degree-of-freedom system.     

Analysis of effects of differential gain on dynamic stability of digital force control

The paper presents an analytical investigation of the dynamics of digital force control. A one degree-of-freedom (DoF) mechanical system with low viscous damping is subjected to proportional-derivative (PD) force control. Analytical results are presented in the form of stability charts in the parameter space of sampling time, control gains and mechanical parameters. Simple closed form results include the largest stable proportional gain and the least steady state force error that provide synthesis of mechanical and control system parameter influences for the design of digital force control. Also, a novel analytical explanation is given why even the properly filtered force derivative signal is rarely used in practice, and why the occurring vibrations have frequencies one range smaller than that of the sampling frequency of the digital control.     

Study on the force transmissibility of vibration isolators with geometric nonlinear damping

By a special layout of the damper in a vibration isolation system, the velocity-nth power damping of the damper can be transformed into the velocity-displacement dependent damping in the moving direction due to geometric nonlinearity. This study is mainly concerned with the mechanism of this geometric nonlinear damping and tries to find some guidelines for designing isolators with high performance, regardless of the isolator is passive or active. The model used in this study is an unconstrained two-degree-of-freedom isolation system, which is suitable for investigating vibration isolation in space vehicles. The motion equation is solved by the averaging method to obtain the amplitude–frequency equation. The influence of damping coefficients on the force transmissibility is analyzed. Results show that this kind of damping has some advantages in improving isolation performance at both the resonance and higher frequencies. Meanwhile, it can also degrade the isolation performance if unreasonable parameters are chosen.