
two natural frequencies increases. In the presence of a harmonic disturbance
acting on the mass of the primary system, we would like the response of mass
m
1
not to be large when we are operating at frequencies close to either of the
two resonance frequencies of the undamped two degree-of-freedom system.
To address this, we return to the forced oscillation problem.
General Case of Absorber System
19
In Figures 8.19 and 8.20, the nondimensional amplitude response
(8.116)
determined from Eq. (8.108) is plotted as a function of the nondimensional
excitation frequency ratio . The mass ratio m
r
, the ratio frequency v
r
, and
the damping of the primary system expressed by z
1
are held fixed in each case,
and the damping factor z
2
is varied. The ratio v
r
is decreased from 1 to 0.97
(i.e., by 3%) in going from Figure 8.19 to Figure 8.20. In both figures, we
have one scenario with an undamped vibration absorber and two scenarios
with two different damped vibration absorbers. The responses seen in Figures
8.19 and 8.20 are characteristic of two degree-of-freedom systems excited by
a harmonic excitation, where the excitation frequency range includes the two
H
11
1 2 0k
1
G
11
1j20
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0 0.5 1 1.5 2
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
2
0.2
Ω
H
11
(Ω)
2
0.05
2
0
FIGURE 8.19
Amplitude response of primary mass
m
1
with a damped vibration
absorber: m
r
0.1, z
1
0.1,
and v
r
1.
19
The response of an absorber system that is limited by an elastic or rigid stop can be found in
the work of A. M. Veprik and V. I. Babitsky, “Non-Linear Correction of Vibration Protection Sys-
tem Containing Tuned Dynamic Absorber,” J. Sound Vibration, Vol. 239 No. 2, pp. 335–356,
2001. The attachment of a spring-mass-damper system to beams, plates, and shells is treated in
the following series of articles: E. O. Ayorinde and G. B. Warburton, “Optimum Absorber Para-
meters for Simple Systems,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 8,
pp. 196–217, 1980; E. O. Ayorinde and G. B. Warburton, “Minimizing Structural Vibrations
with Absorbers,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 8, pp. 219–236, 1980;
G. B. Warburton, “Optimum Absorber Parameters for Minimizing Vibration Response,” Earth-
quake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 9, pp. 251–262, 1981; and G. B. Warburton,
“Optimum Absorber Parameters for Various Combinations of Response and Excitation Parame-
ters,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 10, pp. 381–401, 1982.