Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In a conventional elastic beam with steady boundary stiffness, vibrational energy tends to concentrate at specific modal frequencies, often resulting in significant resonance phenomena. To address this issue, a novel control strategy is proposed in this study, in which the stiffness of boundary springs is dynamically modulated to alter the resonance characteristics of the beam. The Newmark–Beta method is employed to compute the transient response of the beam with time-varying stiffness in the time domain. A series of numerical simulations is conducted to analyze the vibration behavior of the structure under single-model frequency, multimodal frequency, narrowband, and broadband random excitations. The results indicate that time-varying stiffness effectively redistributes energy from resonance frequencies to other frequency bands, thereby suppressing resonance peaks and reducing displacement amplitudes. Furthermore, parametric analysis reveals that increasing the range of stiffness variation enhances spectral dispersion and improves vibration attenuation performance, and increasing the average stiffness level helps improve energy dispersion; however, it may lead to a slight increase in vibration response at low frequencies.
Source: Applied Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/app152111365
Authors: Zhiwei Guo, Yu Zhang, Meiping Sheng, Leilei Liu, Yinling Li
Institution: Northwestern Polytechnical University
Language: English
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,896
Award: G1521507706
OpenAlex ID: W7093349615