A robust vibration absorber reduces vibrations of a system over a range of frequencies. Passive vibration absorption is achieved with a tuned mass and spring (known as a dynamic vibration absorber (DVA)). This is a simple, low cost method of reducing vibrations at a single frequency; however, in order to achieve robust absorption a heavy mass is required. Active vibration control is achieved wi...

This study presents vibration control using actively tunable vibration absorbers (ATVA) to suppress vibration of a thin plate. The ATVA is made of a sandwich hollow structure embedded with electrorheological fluid (ERF). ERF is considered to be one of the most important smart fluids and it is suitable to be embedded in a smart structure due to its controllable rheological property. ERF’s appare...

This paper describes a new testing and analysis methodology for obtaining equivalent linear stiffness and damping of automotive shock absorbers for use in system-level chassis and vehicle computer aided engineering (CAE) models for noise and vibration prediction. Since most of the system-level CAE models in a vehicle are linear in nature, equivalent linear parameters of chassis components are m...

The article presents the amplitude measurement used in the diagnosis of hydraulic fluid leakage from the shock absorbers of passenger cars. Measures used to assess the distribution of the peak using the free vibration method with force extortion. To verify the results of study the FFT were used. In particular illustration of a random vibroacoustic process, acceleration of sprung mass for front ...

A novel sequential tuning procedure for passive piezoelectric shunts targeting multiple structural modes is proposed in this work. The control authority on each targeted mode can be quantitatively chosen ab initio and shown to limited by passivity requirements, which highlights the fundamental limitations of multimodal shunts. Based effective characteristics system around resonance, electrical ...