Abstract: In earlier studies of multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems, an impact had always been assumed to affect the velocity of the lumped mass at the point of impact. Experiments show that the velocities of all points in a ...

Abstract: Statistical analysis of the phenomenon of impact damping is performed on 60 steady-state vibration tests of a flexible beam to relate the system's modal damping to system parameters. Compared with other measures of ...