Numerical and Experimental Studies of Pendulum Dynamic Vibration Absorber for Structural Vibration

Abstract

This research presents a pendulum dynamic vibration absorber (PDVA) consisting of a spring and a mass in order to attenuate structural vibrations at two frequencies of hosting structure. It is a convention to attach several dynamic absorbers to hosting structure for the sake of the attenuations of structural vibrations at multiple frequencies with enlarged bandwidth and often it increases the total mass and the installation cost. Therefore, the reduction of the number of vibration absorbers for multiple excitation frequencies is an important issue from an engineering point of view. To resolve these difficulties, this study proposes to adopt the vibration absorber framework of the spring-mass vibration as well as the pendulum vibration simultaneously with the present PDVA system. It is composed of a spring and a mass but being allowed to swing circumferentially, the structural vibrations at the two resonance frequencies, i.e., the square root of stiffness over mass and the square root of a length over gravidity, can be simultaneously attenuated. As the length of the spring of the present PDVA is varied, the effective ranges for the pendulum dynamic vibration absorber become widen. To prove the concept of the present PDVA, this research conducts several numerical simulations and experiments.