Using delayed damping to minimize transmitted vibrations

In Mokni et al. Mokni L, Belhaq M, Lakrad F. Effect of fast parametric viscous damping excitation on vibration isolation in sdof systems. Commun Nonlinear Sci Numer Simulat 2011;16:1720-1724], it was shown that in a single degree of freedom system a fast nonlinear parametric damping enhances vibration isolation with respect to the case where the nonlinear damping is time-independent. The present work proposes additional enhancement of vibration isolation using delayed nonlinear damping. Attention is focused on assessing the contribution of a delayed nonlinear damping over a fast parametric damping in terms of minimizing transmissibility. The results show that a nonlinear damping with delay greatly improves vibration isolation.