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A high-efficient nonlinear energy sink with a one-way energy converter

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The nonlinear energy sink (NES) has been presented in the past two decades. Although it has very broad applications, some inherent limitation of the traditional NES is inevitable, such as relatively high energy threshold. This paper proposes a new NES with one-way energy converter (EC), which is realized by an asymmetric bi-linear element. The Runge–Kutta method is used to solve the governing equations of the traditional NES; the EC-NES and the reference configuration and the target energy transfer (TET) efficiency are compared. Numerical evidence confirms that the bi-linear spring plays a leading role in enhancing the one-way energy absorbing. Obvious vibration suppression of the EC-NES due to the low-to-high frequency conversion is observed, which is much more efficient than the others. In addition, the energy pumping is investigated for unveiling vibration dissipation in EC-NES. These results pave a new road for designing the high-efficient vibration isolator.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 1207221], the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number 2013017] and the Ten Thousand Talents Program.

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Dang, W., Wang, Z., Chen, L. et al. A high-efficient nonlinear energy sink with a one-way energy converter. Nonlinear Dyn 109, 2247–2261 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-022-07575-4

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