An Investigation of an Impact Vibration Absorber

Abstract

The impact vibration absorber consists of a small mass, moving unidirectionally, impacting against the ends of a container which is rigidly attached to the primary vibrating system. A simplified theory for the forced steady-state response of a linear, single-degree-of-freedom system with an impact vibration absorber is presented. The assumption of two impacts per cycle at equal time intervals is known to lead to two possible solutions near the resonant frequency of the primary system. A criterion for determining the stability of the solutions is developed. An approximate expression for the maximum displacement of the primary system is given and the theory is compared to experimental results.