Vibration control by recursive time-delayed acceleration feedback

This paper presents a theoretical basis of time-delayed acceleration feedback control of linear and nonlinear vibrations of mechanical oscillators. The control signal is synthesized by an infinite, weighted sum of the acceleration of the vibrating system measured at equal time intervals in the past. The proposed method is shown to have controlled linear resonant vibrations, low-frequency non-resonant vibrations, primary and 1/3 subharmonic resonances of a forced Duffing oscillator. The concept of an equivalent damping and natural frequency of the system is also introduced. It is shown that a large amount of damping can be produced by appropriately selecting the control parameters. For some combinations of the control parameters, the effective damping factor of the system is shown to be inversely related to the time-delay in the small delay limit. Selection of the optimum control parameters for controlling the forced and free vibrations is discussed. It is shown that forced vibration is best controlled by unity recursive gain and smaller values of the time-delay parameter. However, the transient response can be optimally controlled by suitably selecting the time delay depending upon the gain. The delay values for the optimal forced response may be different from that required for the optimum transient response. When both are important, a suboptimal choice of the delay parameters with unity recursive gain is recommended.     

On the stability properties of a damped oscillator with a periodically time-varying mass

In this paper the vibrations of a damped, linear, single degree of freedom oscillator (sdofo) with a time-varying mass will be considered. Both the free and forced vibrations of the oscillator will be studied. For the free vibrations the minimal damping rates will be computed, for which the oscillator is always stable. The forced vibrations are partly due to small masses, which are periodically hitting and leaving the oscillator with different velocities. Since these small masses stay for some time on the oscillator surface the effective mass of the oscillator will periodically vary in time. Additionally, an external harmonic force will be applied to the oscillator. Not only solutions of the oscillator equations will be constructed, but also stability properties for the free, and for the forced vibrations will be presented for various parameter values. For the external, harmonic forcing case an interesting resonance condition will be derived.     

AN APPROACH TO PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION FOR A SINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM DYNAMICAL SYSTEM BASED ON SHORT FREE ACCELERATION RESPONSE

An approach to parameter identification for the single-degree-of-freedom (s.d.o.f.) system is presented. It fits into the group of parametric system identification methods that use a structured mathematical model. It uses the free acceleration response of the system in order to estimate the parameters of the equation of motion for the model under consideration. The approach has been numerically tested on Duffing's oscillator with dry friction at different sampling rates of the acceleration time history and at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). The experiment has been carried out on an experimental device with the features of Duffing's oscillator. The validity and advantages of the approach are presented. The results show that this approach offers parameter identification with good quality for short time series using only a modest number of data points for a wide range of s.d.o.f. systems.     

Noise rejection for two time-based multi-output modal analysis techniques

Modal analysis is a well-developed field with many applications. In particular, forced response multi-output approaches are well suited for system identification and online damage detection because they use the natural excitations the system undergoes during its normal operation. In this work, two of these approaches, smooth orthogonal decomposition (SOD) and direct system parameter identification (DSPI), are analyzed, compared, and improved upon. SOD was originally developed as a tool for detecting features of chaotic dynamical systems. Recently, it has been used as a time-based multi-output modal analysis approach. SOD has been demonstrated to work for the free vibration case and for random excitations. DSPI was developed as a time-based multi-input multi-output approach. When the inputs are not measured, DSPI is very similar to SOD and can handle both free vibrations and random excitations. However, if the inputs are measured or known DSPI can also handle arbitrary excitations. To improve the performance of these two methods when used with noisy data, novel noise filtering algorithms are proposed. Numerical simulations are performed to compare the two methods and to show the effectiveness of the filtering algorithms in improving frequency and mode shape extraction.     

On the forced vibrations of an oscillator with a periodically time-varying mass

In this paper the forced vibrations of a linear, single degree of freedom oscillator (sdofo) with a time-varying mass will be studied. The forced vibrations are due to small masses which are periodically hitting and leaving the oscillator with different velocities. Since these small masses stay for some time on the oscillator surface the effective mass of the oscillator will periodically vary in time. Additionally, an external harmonic force will be applied to the oscillator with a time-varying mass. Not only solutions of the oscillator equation will be constructed, but also stability properties for the forced vibrations will be presented for various parameter values.     

Three-stage Nonlinear Thermal Model for Microspeakers in Mobile Phones

Since microspeakers are widely used in mobile phones, high power is usually applied to obtain sufficient output sound pressure. However, the electric power is almost converted into heat, leading to the thermal problem in microspeakers. Compared with large loudspeaker, microspeakers are smaller and the under yoke is relatively closed, causing the heat transfer more complex. In this study, a three-stage nonlinear thermal model was proposed for analyzing the thermal behavior in microspeakers. The inside air is a buffer area between the voice coil and magnet, and modeled as a middle stage of the heat transfer. The forced convection is still significant in microspeakers while the eddy current can be ignored. In order to obtain the thermal parameters of the model, a corresponding parameter identification method was put forward. The basic linear parameters and forced convection parameters were all obtained by measuring and fitting the temperature curves of voice coil at different single tones. A series of experiments were conducted to verify the proposed model and parameter identification method, and the results showed good aggrement between the measured and predicted temperature curves for different input signals. The proposed model was valid and accurate, and may be helpful for the design and application of microspeakers.     

Mathematical model of the dynamics of micropolar elastic thin beams. Free and forced vibrations

A method of hypotheses has been developed to construct a mathematical model of micropolar elastic thin beams. The method is based on the asymptotic properties of the solution ofan initial boundary value problem in a thin rectangle within the micropolar theory of elasticity with independent displacement and rotation fields. An applied model of the dynamics of micropolar elastic thin beams was constructed in which transverse shear strains and related strains are taken into account. The constructed dynamics model was used to solve problems of free and forced vibrations of a micropolar beam. Free vibration frequencies and modes, forced vibration amplitudes, and resonance conditions were determined. The obtained numerical calculation results show the specific features of free vibrations of thin beams. Micropolar thin beams have a free vibration frequency which is almost independent of the thin beam size, but depends only on the physical and inertial properties of the micropolar material. It is shown for the micropolar material that the free vibration frequency values of beams can be readily adjusted and hence a large vibration frequency separation can be achieved, which is important for studying resonance.     

Modal analysis by free vibration response only for discrete and continuous systems

This work aims to develop the algorithm for modal analysis by free vibration response only (MAFVRO), in particular for the general or non-proportional viscous damping system model. If the structural displacement or acceleration response due to free vibration can be measured, the system response matrices, including the displacement, velocity and acceleration, can be obtained through numerical differential or integration methods. These response matrices can then be applied to the developed MAFVRO method to determine the structural modal parameters. The numerical differential and integration methods are introduced and adopted to establish the modal parameter prediction program for the non-proportional damping model of MAFVRO. This work also shows the applications of MAFVRO to the multiple degree-of-freedom (mdof) systems and the cantilever beam, respectively. Both the discrete and continuous systems are demonstrated for the feasibility of the MAFVRO algorithm. The developed method uses the free vibration output response only and can obtain the structural modal parameters successfully.     

Vibration of a liquid with a free surface in a spinning spherical tank

The problem of forced fluid vibrations in a partially filled spinning spherical tank is solved numerically by using the finite element method. The governing equations include Coriolis acceleration and spatially homogeneous vorticity. An exponential instability is detected in the present simulation for fill ratios below 0·5 and centrifugal acceleration to thrust ratios less than 1·7. This fictitious instability appears in the model as a result of the homogeneous vortex assumption since the free slosh equations are neutrally stable in the Liapunov sense.     

A time-varying identification method for mixed response measurements

The proper orthogonal decomposition is a method that may be applied to linear and nonlinear structures for extracting important information from a measured structural response. This method is often applied for model reduction of linear and nonlinear systems and has been applied recently for time-varying system identification. Although methods have previously been developed to identify time-varying models for simple linear and nonlinear structures using the proper orthogonal decomposition of a measured structural response, the application of these methods has been limited to cases where the excitation is either an initial condition or an applied load but not a combination of the two. This paper presents a method for combining previously published proper orthogonal decomposition-based identification techniques for strictly free or strictly forced systems to identify predictive models for a system when only mixed response data are available, i.e. response data resulting from initial conditions and loads that are applied together. This method extends the applicability of the previous proper orthogonal decomposition-based identification techniques to operational data acquired outside of a controlled laboratory setting. The method is applied to response data generated by finite element models of simple linear time-invariant, time-varying, and nonlinear beams and the strengths and weaknesses of the method are discussed.     

Identification of unbalance in a rotor bearing system

Model based methods for fault identification in rotating systems are gaining importance for the last three decades due to their ability to identify both location and severity of the fault. Model based methods are of different types. Among them, equivalent loads minimization method is one method. In this method, fault is identified in a rotor bearing system by minimizing difference between equivalent loads estimated in the system due to the fault and theoretical fault model loads. This method has a limitation that the error in identified fault parameters increases with decrease in number of measured vibrations. Thus a comprehensive methodology for fault identification with minimum error even in case of fewer measured vibrations is attempted in the present work. Two different approaches: equivalent loads minimization and vibration minimization method are applied for the identification of unbalance fault in a rotor system. Unbalance fault is identified using proposed methods by measuring transverse vibrations at only one location.     

Damped vibration analysis of an elastically connected complex double-string system

The main purpose of the present paper is to consider theoretically damped transverse vibrations of an elastically connected double-string system. This system is treated as two viscoelastic strings with a Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic layer between them. A theoretical analysis has been made for a simplified model of the system, in which assumed physical parameters make it possible to decouple the governing equations of motion by introducing the principal co-ordinates. Applying the method of separation of variables and the modal expansion method, exact analytical solutions for damped free and forced responses of the system subjected to arbitrarily distributed transverse continuous loads are determined in the case of arbitrary magnitude of linear viscous damping. It is important to note that the solutions obtained are explicitly expressed in terms of parameters characterizing the physical properties of the system under discussion. For the sake of completeness of the analysis, solutions for undamped free and forced vibrations are also formulated.     

Natural frequencies and mode shapes of flexural vibration of plates: laser-interferometry detection and solutions by Ritz's method

This paper presents an experimental and theoretical study of flexural symmetric vibration modes of a linear elastic plate. A laser interferometer is used as detector of the free vibration of a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped aluminium plate. The vibration spectrum gives the lowest natural frequencies of the sample. Assumption that the vibration of the plates may be described by some approximate theories is proven to be inconsistent. The Ritz method, with products of powers of the co-ordinates as basis functions, is applied to obtain the lowest flexural natural frequencies. Three-dimensional solutions are obtained, unlike those provided by simpler theories. The experimental results are compared with the numerical predictions and a good agreement is obtained. Finally, forced motion is applied to the centre of the plate and the out-of-plane and in-plane displacement components for the first symmetric mode are measured. A good fit of the calculated values to the experimental values is found.     

一类非自治位置时滞反馈控制系统的亚谐共振响应

研究了弹性轨道条件下，控制回路中位置反馈信号存在时滞的磁浮系统在亚谐轨道激励作用下的响应问题. 将动力学模型在平衡点处线性化，以时滞为分岔参数，得到了系统出现Hopf分岔的条件. 用中心流形约化方法得到了包含轨道扰动系统的Poincaré规范型. 用多尺度法从理论上推导了时滞磁浮系统的亚谐共振周期解，得到了自由振动的分岔响应方程，分析了周期解中自由振动项的存在条件，研究了控制参数和激励参数与周期解的关系. 最后用数值仿真的方法分析了时滞参数、控制参数对系统响应的影响，分析结果指出，使系统保持稳定的亚谐响应的时滞边界小于无扰动时的时滞边界，时滞参数不但可以抑制亚谐响应，还能够控制混沌的产生，而控制参数可以控制系统响应中自由振动项的出现和受迫振动的幅值，适当选择这些参数可以有效抑制亚谐振动响应. 关键词： 亚谐共振响应 位置时滞反馈控制 非自治磁浮系统 分岔     

Measurement of the energy dissipated in the hand and arm whilst using vibratory tools

Acceleration levels during hand-held grinding have been measured. By controlling the input to a vibration shaker the same acceleration levels were introduced into a specially designed handle gripped by a human hand. From measurements of force, acceleration and phase the power dissipated in the hand was calculated in third-octave bands. Approximate agreement was achieved with power dissipation estimates obtained from the acceleration alone by assuming the hand-arm system to be a linear, single degree of freedom system. The power dissipated is proposed as an important parameter affecting vibration-induced white finger.     

Human simulated intelligent control of vehicle suspension system with MR dampers

This paper presents vibration control responses of a controllable magnetorheological (MR) suspension system of a passenger car. The MR damper is designed and manufactured on the basis of the mixed-mode operation, and its time response is experimentally evaluated to integrate with the suspension model. After formulating the dynamic model of a half-car MR suspension system, a human simulated intelligent control (HSIC) scheme is developed to attenuate unwanted vibrations such as pitch angle acceleration. After verifying the effectiveness of the HSIC via computer simulation, the road test of the passenger car installed with four MR dampers is undertaken. The power spectrum densities of dynamic motions such as body acceleration and pitch angle acceleration are measured and analyzed. In addition, the control results obtained from the proposed HSIC are compared with those obtained from a conventional linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control method.     

Collective potential and mass parameters derived from the generator coordinate method

The collective hamiltonian for the axial quadrupole vibrations was derived from theQQ+PP model. The generator coordinate method was applied and the results obtained through the symmetric moments expansion and the gaussian overlap approximation were compared. It was found that the collective potential and the average magnitude of the mass parameter obtained in both approximations are close to each other.     

Factors affecting perception thresholds of vertical whole-body vibration in recumbent subjects: Gender and age of subjects, and vibration duration

Some factors that may affect human perception thresholds of the vertical whole-body vibrations were investigated in two laboratory experiments with recumbent subjects. In the first experiment, the effects of gender and age of subjects on perception were investigated with three groups of 12 subjects, i.e., young males, young females and old males. For continuous sinusoidal vibrations at 2, 4, 8, 16, 31.5 and 63 Hz, there were no significant differences in the perception thresholds between male and female subjects, while the thresholds of young subjects tended to be significantly lower than the thresholds of old subjects. In the second experiment, the effect of vibration duration was investigated by using sinusoidal vibrations, at the same frequencies as above, modulated by the Hanning windows with different lengths (i.e., 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 s) for 12 subjects. It was found that the peak acceleration at the threshold tended to decrease with increasing duration of vibration. The perception thresholds were also evaluated by the running root-mean-square (rms) acceleration and the fourth power acceleration method defined in the current standards. The differences in the threshold of the transient vibrations for different durations were less with the fourth power acceleration method. Additionally, the effect of the integration time on the threshold was investigated for the running rms acceleration and the fourth power acceleration. It was found that the integration time that yielded less differences in the threshold of vibrations for different durations depended on the frequency of vibration.     

Multi-frequency excitation of stiffened triangular plates for large amplitude oscillations

Free and forced vibrations of triangular plate are investigated. Diverse types of stiffeners were attached onto the plate to suppress the undesirable large-amplitude oscillations. The governing equation of motion for a triangular plate, based on the von Kármán theory, is developed and the nonlinear ordinary differential equation of the system using Galerkin approach is obtained. Closed-form expressions for the free undamped and large-amplitude vibration of an orthotropic triangular elastic plate are presented using the two well-known analytical methods, namely, the energy balance method and the variational approach. The frequency responses in the closed-form are presented and their sensitivities with respect to the initial amplitudes are studied. An error analysis is performed and the vibration behavior, as well as the accuracy of the solution methods, is evaluated. Different types of the stiffened triangular plates are considered in order to cover a wide range of practical applications. Numerical simulations are carried out and the validity of the solution procedure is explored. It is demonstrated that the two methods of energy balance and variational approach have been quite straightforward and reliable techniques to solve those nonlinear differential equations. Subsequently, due to the importance of multiple resonant responses in engineering design, multi-frequency excitations are considered. It is assumed that three periodic forces are applied to the plate in three specific positions. The multiple time scaling method is utilized to obtain approximate solutions for the frequency resonance cases. Influences of different parameters, namely, the position of applied forces, geometry and the number of stiffeners on the frequency response of the triangular plates are examined.     

Single unit impact damper in free and forced vibration

The single unit impact damper under free and forced vibrations is studied. The effects of mass ratio, coefficient of restitution, and gap size on the free vibrations are determined by simulating motion on the digital computer. Agreement of theoretical results with the present and previous experimental results in the free vibration state is good. In the study of forced motion, charts are developed, by using the closed form solution, showing optimum gaps and corresponding displacement amplitude reduction within the resonant frequency range. The optimum gap at resonance is not necessarily optimal at other frequencies.