Rotational inertia-based tuned-mass-damper for controlling force transmission

Abstract

Nowadays, the inerter device has become one of most popular mechanical devices in the vibration absorption field for both stationary and non-stationary mechanical structures. One of the problems commonly reported in the literature is the force transmission control in the foundations that support the machines, which is generally addressed by using either isolators or classic dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs). However, the mechanical energy dissipation capability of these two solutions is still limited. This work focuses on improving the control performance for the conventional absorber using the inerter’s inertial mass amplification and negative stiffness effects. In order to fairly evaluate the control performance of the DVA based on grounded inerter, the  and  optimization criteria are proposed. When the dimensionless frequency response function (FRF) of the transmissibility is minimized at the resonant peaks, the  criterion reveals an improvement of 29.74% in mitigating harmonic vibration. Finally, the total vibration energy transmitted to the foundation is minimized via  criterion that provides an improvement of 33.03%.