Silchar

Department of civil Engineering

A Seminar presentation on

PARTICLE DAMPER
Presented by:
SHASHI KUMAR
Regn. No.- 2021205
Specialization: Structural dynamics & earthquake engineering

Guided by:
Dr. Atanu Sahu
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Silchar
Table of content
 Introduction

Particle Damper

Application of Particle Damper

Advantages of particle Damper

Case study

Conclusion

References
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 INTRODUCTION
Vibration is a continuous cyclic motion of a structure or a component.
Generally, engineers try to avoid
vibrations, because vibrations have a
number of unpleasant effects:

 Cyclic motion implies cyclic forces. 

Cyclic forces are very damaging to
materials. (1)

 Even modest levels of vibration can

cause extreme discomfort;
 Vibrations generally lead to a loss of
precision in controlling machinery.

Fig. (1)Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge. (2) Isolator installed in building construction 3
(2)
 TYPES OF DAMPER

DAMPER

Active Damper Passive Damper Hybrid Damper

Visco-elastic Fiction Tuned Isolators Impact Particle

materials devices dampers damper damper

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 PARTICLE DAMPER
Particle damping is also referred to as acceleration
damping, multiple impact damping, multi-particle Multiple Mass
damping, granular damping, granular-fill damping,
and shot damping.
Particle damping is the use of particles moving freely
in a cavity to produce a damping effect.
Particle damping technology is a derivative of impact
damping.
Particle dampers show a huge potential to reduce
Fig. Particle Damper
undesired vibrations in technical applications even under
harsh environmental conditions.
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 CONTD…
Impact damping refers to only a single
(somewhat larger) auxiliary mass in a cavity, Single Mass Multiple Mass
whereas particle damping is used to imply
multiple auxiliary masses of small size in a
cavity.
Particle damping is a form of an auxiliary-mass
type vibration damper, wherein multiple metal,
tungsten carbide, ceramic or other types of small
particles are placed within the cavities of the
vibrating structure.
 Particle dampers are also suitable for employment
in long-term harsh environments, such as high Fig. Impact Damper Fig. Particle Damper
temperature, severe cold, oil contamination, etc
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 Types of PD Based On Their Peculiarities
Single  the typical particle damper which has a single cavity and is externally attached
unit
to the main structure
Multi unit a particle damper which consists of more units attached to the main structure
damper which does not modify the geometry of the main structure and often
NOPD
consists of one or more holes drilled into the structure

TPD
classic dynamic vibration absorber which uses a cavity filled with particles
instead of a mass.
controllable pressure inside the particle cavity allows to actively control the
VPP
response of the particle damper.
a traditional impact damper where the large single impacting mass is placed in a
FPID
cavity together with many smaller particles to increase energy dissipation. 7
 Principle Of Particle Damper
 Particle dampers are devices that
work by a combination of impact and
friction damping.
 They dissipate the energy of a system
by transferring it to a bed of particles.
 This bed is geometrically constrained
to remain inside a container fixed to
the vibrating system.
 As such, the motion-caused
interaction occurring inside the
container damps the absorbed energy. Fig. A Typical Experimental Setup*
(*ref. Niklas Meyer & Robert Seifried Toward a design methodology for particle dampers by analyzing their energy dissipation. Computational Particle Mechanics)
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 CONTD…
The main dissipative mechanisms involved are
Principle:
1 Collisions Between The Container Walls and particles.
Principle:
2 Collisions Between The Particles Themselves.
Principle:
3 Sliding Friction Between The Same.
Principle:
4 Rolling Friction Between The Same.

Note: For collisions between the particles and the cavity walls to occur, both
should be out-of-phase with each other.

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 Application of particle damper
Following are the applications of Particle damper

1 Earthquake Isolation For Buildings.

2 To Reduce The Emission Of Sound.

3 Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, And Medical Industries.

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Engine Oil Pans, Aircraft Components, Spacecraft Components,
Helicopter Blades.

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Advantages of particle damper
Following are the advantages of Particle damper

1 Moderate Cost.

2 Good Durability.

3 Low-maintenance.

4 Temperature Insensitivity.

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 Case Study On Particle Damper
 Analytical and experimental studies on particle damper used for tremor suppression (By Zheng Lu &
Zhikuang Huang, Journal of Vibration and Control 2020, Vol. 0(0) 1–11)

Figure. Angular displacement of the upper limb pathological tremor  (Gillard et al., 2002).
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 CONTD…
A mechanical model of the particle damper for tremor suppression is established.
Its steady-state solutions are obtained and verified.
It is shown that increasing the particle mass leads to an increase of the particle
damper performance for tremor suppression, but it has an upper limit.
The relative error of peak acceleration between the experimental results and the
theoretical results is less than 11% in all cases.
The theoretical method presented in this study is not recommended for the cases
with very large or small gap clearance of the particle damper cavity.
In these cases, the assumption that the particles collide with the cavity walls twice
per cycle is not satisfied.
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 CONCLUSION
Particle damping technology has been widely used due to its:
1 Conceptual Simplicity

2 Moderate Cost

3 Good durability

4 Temperature insensitive
More Research is needed in particle Damper For civil
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Engineering Structure.
Provided that the operating temperature is below the particles’ metal melting
point, it could maintain normal operation 14
 REFERENCES
1. Lois Gagnon, Marco Morandini & Gian Luca Ghiringhelli (2019, January). A review of particle
damping modeling and testing. Journal of Sound and Vibration. Volume 459, pp. 1-37.
2. Zheng Lu, Zixin Wang, Sami F. Masri & Xilin Lu (2017 may). Particle Impact Dampers: Past,
Present, and Future. DOI: 10.1002/stc.2058.
3.  H.V. Panossian, Structural damping enhancement via non-obstructive particle damping
technique. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 114 (1992), pp. 101–105.
4. P.Veeramuthuvel, K. Shankar & K.K. Sairajan (October-November, 2016) Application of particle
damper on electronic packages for spacecraft. Acta Astronautica. Volume 127, pp. 1-11.
5. Shinde Vikash L. Shinde, Pathak A.K. Pathak Review on Particle Damping Technique for
Vibration Suppression. International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering
and Technology, Vol. 5, pp. 1-5.
6. Zheng Lu & Zhikuang Huang (October 2020). Analytical and experimental studies on particle
damper used for tremor suppression. Journal of Vibration and Control 2020, Vol. 0(0) 1–11
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