Optimal Nonlinear Energy Sink (NES) is employed in vibration suppression of the beams subjected to successive moving loads in this paper. As a real application, a typical railway bridge is dynamically modeled by a single-span beam and a traveling high-speed train is simulated by a series of successive moving loads. Genetic algorithm is employed as the optimization technique and optimal paramete...

The targeted energy transfer (TET) phenomenon has been demonstrated and analyzed between an acoustic medium inside a parallelepiped cavity and a thin viscoelastic membrane that is mounted on one wall of the cavity and that is working as a nonlinear absorber or a nonlinear energy sink (NES). Based on the desired working zone of the NES and the two thresholds of the zone which have been obtained,...

A nonlinear energy sink (NES) is characterized by its ability to passively realize targeted energy transfer as well as multimodal damping. This latter feature seems to make this device very well suited for reducing the vibration level of MDOF linear structures. The perspective of dealing with MDOF linear primary structures requires the development of an efficient NES design procedure. This pape...

The transient dynamics of a beam mounted on springer-damper support and equipped with a nonlinear energy sink (NES) is investigated under the effects of shock loads. The equations of motion are derived using the Hamilton’s principle leading to four hybrid ordinary and partial differential equations and descritized using the Galerkin method. An adaptive Newmark method is employed for accurate an...

In this study, we address the response regimes of a novel Nonlinear Energy Sink (NES) that couples both cubic and impact nonlinearities. non-smooth condition, conventional multiple scales method is considered with condition. By identifying occurrence collision, asymptotic analysis equivalent NES model Vibro-Impact (VI) can illustrate fixed point Cubic (VIC) NES. Three types VIC are described as...

Abstract. Theoretical and experimental suppression of aeroelastic instabilities by means of broadband passive targeted energy transfers has been recently studied. A single-degree-offreedom (SDOF) nonlinear energy sink (NES) was coupled to a 2-DOF rigid wing modeled in the low-speed, subsonic regime with quasi-steady aerodynamic theory. The nonlinear attachment was designed and optimized to supp...

Abstract The bistable nonlinear energy sink (NES) shows high efficiency in mitigating vibration through targeted transfer (TET). It performs well low- and high-energy input cases, whereas, for a cubic NES, TET occurs only above certain threshold. In this work, the measure of pumping time is extended to harmonic excitation case by application particular integration assumption. An equivalent poin...

Nonlinear energy sink (NES) refers to a typical passive vibration device connected linear or weakly nonlinear structures for absorption and mitigation. This study investigates the dynamics of 1-dof 2-dof NES with damping combined stiffness oscillator. For system NES, truncation failure frequency are revealed through bifurcation analysis using complex variable averaging method. The detuning inte...