TY - GEN
T1 - Shock mitigation by energy reversal to the high frequency modes
AU - AL-Shudeifat, Mohammad A.
AU - Vakakis, Alexander F.
AU - Bergman, Lawrence A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 by ASME.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this computational study, a light-weight dynamic device is investigated for passive energy reversal from the lowest frequency mode to the high frequency modes of a large-scale frame structure for rapid shock mitigation. The device is based on the single-sided vibro-impact mechanism. It has two functions for passive energy transfer: a nonlinear energy sink (NES) for local energy dissipation and an energy pump to high frequency modes where a significant amount of the shock energy is rapidly dissipated. As a result, a significant portion of the shock energy induced into the linear dynamic structure can be passively reversed from the lowest frequency mode to the high frequency modes and rapidly dissipated by their modal damping. The amount of the energy dissipated by the modal damping of the high frequency modes can be controlled by the amount of inherent damping in the device. Ideally, the device can passively reverse up to 80% of the input shock energy from the lowest frequency mode to the high frequency modes when its damping is assumed to be zero and its impact coefficient of restitution is equal to unity. The shock energy redistribution between this device and the high frequency modes is found to be efficient for rapid shock mitigation in the considered 9-story dynamic structure.
AB - In this computational study, a light-weight dynamic device is investigated for passive energy reversal from the lowest frequency mode to the high frequency modes of a large-scale frame structure for rapid shock mitigation. The device is based on the single-sided vibro-impact mechanism. It has two functions for passive energy transfer: a nonlinear energy sink (NES) for local energy dissipation and an energy pump to high frequency modes where a significant amount of the shock energy is rapidly dissipated. As a result, a significant portion of the shock energy induced into the linear dynamic structure can be passively reversed from the lowest frequency mode to the high frequency modes and rapidly dissipated by their modal damping. The amount of the energy dissipated by the modal damping of the high frequency modes can be controlled by the amount of inherent damping in the device. Ideally, the device can passively reverse up to 80% of the input shock energy from the lowest frequency mode to the high frequency modes when its damping is assumed to be zero and its impact coefficient of restitution is equal to unity. The shock energy redistribution between this device and the high frequency modes is found to be efficient for rapid shock mitigation in the considered 9-story dynamic structure.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC201434088
DO - 10.1115/DETC201434088
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961293609
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 10th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2014
Y2 - 17 August 2014 through 20 August 2014
ER -