Impact of damping on decay time of free oscillations in metal structures

The problem of increase of durability of the bearing thin walled metal structures of hoisting- A nd-transport machines maybe solved by means of structural damping which allows to increase the logarithmic decrement of the damped oscillations. In the work there are given the results of modelling and experimental check of the advantages of usage low-modulus foam materials as fillers at a structural damping of thin walled elements of metal structures. With the help of computational package SolidWorks there was conducted a numerical study to define amplitude-frequency characteristic of laboratory machine and then there were run the tests of model structure with building vibrorecord. As a result if research there was revealed a significant increase of the logarithmic decrement and reduction of the time of decay of natural oscillation of the foamed structure. Consequently, there are shown the advantages of the further researches to use energy-intensive foam materials to dampen the elements of the structures of handling machinery. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd