Experimental Investigation of the Vibration Reduction of the Pipeline System with a Particle Impact Damper under Random Excitation

Abstract

In the engineering field, severe vibration of the pipeline system occurs under random excitation, which leads to vibration failure of the pipeline system due to overload. The traditional method is to increase the rigidity of the pipeline system, and to avoid low-frequency resonance by using clamps or damping materials. However, due to structural limitations, it is difficult to apply clamps and damping materials. Particle damping technology has been applied in many fields, and the vibrational energy in the broadband frequency domain could be dissipated based on nonlinear particle collision damping. In this paper, a particle impact damper is designed for vibration reduction of the pipeline system. The damping capability is identified to investigate the effects of particle material, filling rate, particle size, damper structure, and boundary conditions. The results indicate that the ideal damping performance can be obtained by properly selecting particle parameters. Based on applying particle damping on the pipeline system, the proposed particle impact damper showed excellent damping capability under random excitation.