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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF BEAM-TIP MASS AND PENDULUM SYSTEM UNDER RANDOM EXCITATION

✍ Scribed by I. CICEK; A. ERTAS


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
318 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-3270

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✦ Synopsis


This research deals with the dynamic response of a large flexible beam with a tip masspendulum system. The system is a conceptualisation of a vibration-absorbing device for large flexible structures with tip appendages. The response of the system to the wide-band random excitation is observed and analysed experimentally. The concept of the experiment is to determine the energy transfer between the beam and the pendulum due to the nonlinear interaction of the modes of the system.

The measurements include time history records, mean-square response curves of beam, and the pendulum for different response regimes. Also, sets of experiments were conducted to determine the autoparametric interaction between the two modes of the system in the neighbourhood of the autoparametric region. The outcome of this research reveals the scope and limitations of the beam-pendulum oscillator as a potential vibration-absorbing device in the applications where random disturbance occurs.