Fundamental characteristics of Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers for suppressing harmonically forced oscillations
Abstract
Abstract Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers (MTMD's) consisting of many tuned mass dampers (TMD's) with distributed natural frequencies are considered for suppressing effectively the harmonically forced single mode response of structures. The fundamental characteristics of MTMD's are investigated analytically with the parameters of the covering frequency range of MTMD's, the damping ratio of each TMD and the total number of TMD's. The effectiveness and the robustness of MTMD's are also discussed in comparison with those of the usual single TMD. It is found that there exists an optimum MTMD for the given total number of TMD's with the optimum frequency range and the optimum damping ratio and that the optimum MTMD is more effective than the optimum single TMD. As for the robustness, it is also clarified that a MTMD can be much more robust than a single TMD while keeping the same level of effectiveness as the optimum single TMD.
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The sensitivity of multiple TMDs against uncertainty in the structural frequency can diminish significantly by widening the TMD frequency range.
“Also shown in both the above studies, the sensitivity of the multiple TMDs against uncertainty in the structural frequency can diminish significantly by widening the TMD frequency range.”
From Application of Tuned Mass Dampers for Structural Vibration Control: A State-of-the-art Review (2020) · cites this paper as [40]
For a given number of TMDs, there exists an optimal frequency range and an optimal TMD damping ratio which make the structural response minimum.
“They found that, for a given number of TMDs, there exist an optimal frequency range and an optimal TMD damping ratio which make the structural response minimum.”
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- Authors
- Yamaguchi, H., & Harnpornchai, N.
- Affiliations
- Asian Institute of Technology (TH)
- ORCID
- Yamaguchi, Hiroki
- Venue
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1993-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 51-62
- ISSN
- 0098-8847 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-9845
- OpenAlex
- W1995411698
- Cited by
- 341
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 18.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Asian Institute of Technology
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
- Keywords
- multiple tuned mass dampers, tuned mass damper, harmonic excitation, vibration suppression, damping ratio, robustness, structural vibration control
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