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Experimental characterization and performance of dynamic vibration absorber with tunable piecewise-linear stiffness

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Dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) is one of the ways to control the level of vibration. Among many mechanisms and control strategies of the DVA, passively tuned DVA emerges as one of the most effective absorbers due to its simple mechanism. However, the performance of the passive tuned DVA suffers from narrow suppression bandwidth. This paper introduces a nonlinear dynamic vibration absorber (NDVA) with an adjustable piecewise-linear stiffness mechanism which has a characteristic almost similar to hardening stiffness to broaden the vibration suppression bandwidth. The mechanism is made of a cantilever beam constrained by two vertically and horizontally adjustable limit blocks on either side of the beam’s equilibrium position. The static and dynamic properties of the proposed NDVA were first investigated for different positions of the limit blocks. Then the performance of the NDVA was compared with the linear DVA in terms of the vibration suppression bandwidth, separation of resonance frequencies and the ability to cope with mistuning. Overall, the NDVA seems to outperform the linear DVA, and it is more forgiving in the case of mistuning.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka through the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2016/TK03/FKM-CARe/F00318).

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    Muhammad Harith Mustaffer, Roszaidi Ramlan, Mohd Nazim Abdul Rahman & Azma Putra

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Mustaffer, M.H., Ramlan, R., Abdul Rahman, M. et al. Experimental characterization and performance of dynamic vibration absorber with tunable piecewise-linear stiffness. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 42, 355 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-020-02435-x

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