Establishment of the equal-peak principle for a multiple-DOF nonlinear system with multiple time-delayed vibration absorbers

Abstract

In this study, a generalized equal-peak principle is established to suppress the multimodal vibration of a multiple-degree-of-freedom (M-DOF) nonlinear system. Based on the proposed generalized principle, the design procedure of the multiple time-delayed vibration absorbers (TDVAs) is carried out. By four conditions in the proposed generalized principle, the objective of suppressing all the resonance peaks around multiple modes to the equal minimum values is realized. For the existence of nonlinearity, the necessary and sufficient conditions in the design procedure can guarantee that the two resonance peaks around each mode are simultaneously equal. Moreover, the two equal resonance peaks are suppressed to minimum values with the minimum peak condition. Two case studies verify the efficiency of the TDVAs designed by the generalized equal-peak principle for multimodal vibration suppression. Due to the multimodal vibration suppression capacity of the proposed TDVAs designed by the generalized equal-peak principle, significant broad frequency band vibration suppression effects are achieved. Thus, TDVAs and the proposed equal-peak principle have potential applications in the fields of high-DOF vibration systems, such as civil engineering, precision machining and aerospace.