Modeling, design, and testing of a proof-of-concept prototype damper with friction and eddy current damping effects

Friction is considered as one of the most reliable mechanisms of energy dissipation that has been utilized extensively in passive damping devices to mitigate vibration of civil engineering structures subjected to extreme natural hazards such as earthquakes and windstorms. However, passive friction d...

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Published in:Journal of sound and vibration 2018-01, Vol.413, p.225-249
Main Authors: Amjadian, Mohsen, Agrawal, Anil K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil engineering
Computer simulation
Damping capacity
Dynamic models
Earthquake dampers
Eddy current damping
Eddy current testing
Eddy currents
Energy dissipation
Experiment
Frequencies
Friction
Hazard mitigation
Magnetic fields
Metal plates
Parameter identification
Passive damper
Permanent magnets
Seismic engineering
Slip
Studies
Vibration damping
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Summary:Friction is considered as one of the most reliable mechanisms of energy dissipation that has been utilized extensively in passive damping devices to mitigate vibration of civil engineering structures subjected to extreme natural hazards such as earthquakes and windstorms. However, passive friction dampers are well-known for having a highly nonlinear hysteretic behavior caused by stick-slip motion at low velocities, a phenomenon that is inherent in friction and increases the acceleration response of the structure under control unfavorably. The authors have recently proposed the theoretical concept of a new type of damping device termed as “Passive Electromagnetic Eddy Current Friction Damper” (PEMECFD) in which an eddy current damping mechanism was utilized not only to decrease the undesirable effects of stick-slip motion, but also to increase the energy dissipation capacity of the damping device as a whole. That study was focused on demonstration of the theoretical performance of the proposed damping device through numerical simulations. This paper further investigates the influence of eddy current damping on energy dissipation due to friction through modeling, design, and testing of a proof-of-concept prototype damper. The design of this damper has been improved over the design in the previous study. The normal force in this damper is produced by the repulsive magnetic force between two cuboidal permanent magnets (PMs) magnetized in the direction normal to the direction of the motion. The eddy current damping force is generated because of the motion of the two PMs and two additional PMs relative to a copper plate in their vicinity. The dynamic models for the force-displacement relationship of the prototype damper are based on LuGre friction model, electromagnetic theory, and inertial effects of the prototype damper. The parameters of the dynamic models have been identified through a series of characterization tests on the prototype damper under harmonic excitations of different frequencies in the laboratory. Finally, the identified dynamic models have been validated by subjecting the prototype damper to two different random excitations. The results indicate that the proposed dynamic models are capable of representing force-displacement behavior of the new type of passive damping device for a wide range of operating conditions.
ISSN:0022-460X
1095-8568
DOI:10.1016/j.jsv.2017.10.025