Abstract
Harmful vibrations can cause many engineering problems, such as disasters of civil engineering structures, failure of precision equipment, and out of order of some spacecraft components. On most situations, the vibrations are usually three dimensional excitations. Therefore, research on multi-dimensional vibration control became a world-wide hotspot in engineering. This article presents a comprehensive assessment of recent developments of multi-dimensional vibration mitigation devices and the material applied in such devices. The vibration mitigation materials mainly include the passive vibration mitigation materials and smart vibration mitigation materials. Subsequently, the vibration mitigation devices in civil engineering, mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering are reviewed and commented respectively. Above all, the multi-dimensional vibration mitigation devices and materials, are found to be effective for reducing multi-dimensional vibrations. However, enhancing the mitigation performance of the devices in each direction, including improving the mitigation capability of material, is still a challenging issue.
Highlights
Vibration is a cyclical reciprocating motion that exists widely in nature and engineering
As for the description of viscoelastic dampers, the traditional models based on one dimension such as the Kelvin model, the Maxwell model, and the standard linear solid model were developed into the fractional-derivative equivalent standard solid model and the integrated mathematical model to meet the demands of multidimensional vibration isolation (Xu et al, 2014, 2017b)
Shi and Huang (2013) verified the unique performance of an innovative three-dimensional seismic isolation, called periodic foundation, that was integrated with a high-density core, a soft coating and a concrete matrix, which shows that both horizontal and vertical seismic action can be greatly reduced after crossing the periodic foundation
Summary
Research on multi-dimensional vibration control has become a world-wide hotspot in engineering. This article presents a comprehensive assessment of recent developments of multi-dimensional vibration mitigation devices and the material applied in such devices. The vibration mitigation materials mainly include the passive vibration mitigation materials and smart vibration mitigation materials. The vibration mitigation devices in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering are reviewed and commented, respectively. The multi-dimensional vibration mitigation devices and materials are found to be effective for reducing multi-dimensional vibrations. Enhancing the mitigation performance of the devices in each direction, including improving the mitigation capability of materials, is still a challenging issue
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