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Tunedmassdamper PDF
A tuned mass damper is a system for damping the amplitude in one oscillator by
coupling it to a second oscillator. If tuned properly the maximum amplitude of
the first oscillator in response to a periodic driver will be lowered and much of the
vibration will be transferred to the second oscillator.
This is used, for example in tall buildings to limit the swaying of the building in the
wind. People are sensitive to this swaying, so by adding a tuned mass damper the
building sways less and the damper, which no one can feel, vibrates instead.
I found a nice powerpoint presentation at
http://www14.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/konferenzen/Jass06/courses/4/Stroscher/S
troscher.ppt.
m2
x2
k2 c2
m1
x1
p0 cos(t) k1 c1
Our goal is to grind through the calculations and find explicit expressions for the
periodic solutions to these equations. The computation is similar to what wed see if
we converted to a 4-by-4 system of first order equations, complexified and looked for
a periodic solution of the form eit K for some 4-vector K.
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Tuned Mass Dampers 2
Replacing the first equation by the sum of the two equations gives
x1 = a cos(t) + b sin(t)
x2 = c cos(t) + d sin(t)
Substituting these into the differential equations gives the following algebraic system
of equations.
k1 m1 2 0 m2 2 0 a p0
k1 m1 2 m2 2
0 0 b 0
=
k2 c2 k2 m2 w2 c2 c 0
2
c2 k2 c2 k2 m2 d 0
Call the coefficient matrix M . We can write and invert M in block form.
0 1 A B
Let W = , then M = , where
1 0 C D
A = r1 I, B = r2 I, C = r3 I s1 W , D = r4 I + s1 W ,
r1 = k1 m1 2 , r2 = m2 2 , r3 = k2 , r4 = k2 m2 2 , s1 = c2 .
Since A and B commute with everything in sight we get
(AD BC)1
1 0 D B
M = .
0 (AD BC)1 C A
c22 2 + (k2 m2 2 )2
A21 = p20
[(k1 m1 2 )(k2 m2 2 ) k2 m2 2 ]2 + c22 2 (k1 m1 2 m2 2 )2
c22 2 + k22
A22 = p20
[(k1 m1 2 )(k2 m2 2 ) k2 m2 2 ]2 + c22 2 (k1 m1 2 m2 2 )2
It seems fairly standard to write this in terms of the following constants (the names
are from the Stroscher powerpoint)
k1 k2
eigenfrequencies: 12 = , 22 =
m1 m2
m2
mass ratio: =
m1
c2
damping ratio: =
2m2 2
p0
static deformation: u1,stat =
k1
It is easy enough to write the amplitudes in terms of these parameters. We get
A1 w12 4 2 22 2 +(22 2 )2
u1,stat
= 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2
(1 ) (2 ) + 2 22 (1 )(2 )+4 2 ((1 ) + 2 (1 ))