A Comparison of the Effects of Nonlinear Damping on the Free Vibration of a Single-Degree-of-Freedom System
- 13 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by ASME International in Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
- Vol. 134 (2), 024501
- https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4005010
Abstract
This article concerns the free vibration of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system with three types of nonlinear damping. One system considered is where the spring and the damper are connected to the mass so that they are orthogonal, and the vibration is in the direction of the spring. It is shown that, provided the displacement is small, this system behaves in a similar way to the conventional SDOF system with cubic damping, in which the spring and the damper are connected so they act in the same direction. For completeness, these systems are compared with a conventional SDOF system with quadratic damping. By transforming all the equations of motion of the systems so that the damping force is proportional to the product of a displacement dependent term and velocity, then all the systems can be directly compared. It is seen that the system with cubic damping is worse than that with quadratic damping for the attenuation of free vibration.Keywords
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