Optimum absorber parameters for minimizing vibration response

Abstract

Abstract Optimum parameters are determined for absorbers, which, when attached to one mass of a main system with two degrees of freedom, minimize the harmonic response of that mass. Comparison is made with the absorber parameters that are determined by treating the main system as an equivalent one degree‐of‐freedom system and using classical results. Close agreement is obtained if the ratio of the two natural frequencies of the main system is reasonably large. This is in agreement with the author's recent work on optimum absorber parameters which minimize the response of elastic bodies. The extension of the method to multi degree‐of‐freedom main systems is outlined. The conditions for which different values of these parameters are predicted when the response is minimized over narrow and broad frequency bands are determined.