Optimal Design of Asymmetric Passive and Semi-Active Dampers
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Abstract
Vibration isolators are essentially used to reduce the magnitude of motion or force transmitted from a vibrating source to vibration recipient bodies. Such recipients might be a foundation, a structure, or even a human’s body. Despite all the advancement in vibration control using active and semi-active systems, passive vibration isolators are still widely used in different industrial applications because of their simplicity and low cost. In this paper we investigate an asymmetric one-degree of freedom vibration isolator. This is very important in practice, because all hydraulic dampers are asymmetric in nature. Due to the non-linearity of this system as a result of asymmetric damping, analytical methods of averaging and numerical simulation are used to analyze its frequency and time response characteristics. Optimal damping and stiffness values for the isolator are obtained by minimizing the cost functions, which are the Root Mean Square (RMS) of the acceleration transmissibility and the relative displacement transmissibility. The effect of the asymmetric damping on the optimal values in passive systems are then analyzed and used to create a design chart for the isolator parameters. In addition, the effect of asymmetry on the conventional semi-active systems is studied and the method to the optimal design of asymmetric semi-active systems is discussed.
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