Nonlinear vibration absorber coupled to a nonlinear primary system: A tuning methodology

This paper addresses the problem of mitigating the vibration of nonlinear mechanical systems using nonlinear dynamical absorbers. One particular feature of the proposed absorber is that it is effective in a wide range of forcing amplitudes. A qualitative tuning methodology is developed and validated using numerical simulations. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved