Galloping is a critical type of flow-induced vibration (FIV) arising on power transmission lines, high rise buildings, pipe and cables bundles in the oil and gas industry. In this paper, we present a purely nonlinear energy sink (NES) that mitigates the galloping of a square prism. The NES is composed of a ball rotating freely in a circular track attached to the prism. The ball’s dynamics is coupled to that of the prism in a purely nonlinear way by inertia. We experimentally assess how this simple NES reduces the prism vibration by comparing the prism amplitude responses with and without the NES. A supplementary video presents these experiments, during which the NES ball exhibits different dynamics in three regimes; oscillatory, intermittent, and rotational. We characterize the ball behaviour and its effect on the prism response in each regime. The oscillatory regime appears at low flow speeds at which both the prism and the ball oscillate with small amplitude. The intermittent regime represents a transition mode within a small range of flow speeds and corresponds to a small jump in the vibration amplitude of the prism. The rotational regime appears at higher flow speeds, where the ball oscillates with relatively high angular speeds resulting in a strong modulated response of the prism. The design of the NES allows to easily vary its track dimensions to use a ball of different sizes and masses. Accordingly, we demonstrate the influence of the main NES parameters, which are the ball mass, NES track radius, ball friction, and radial clearance between NES track walls and the rotating ball, on both the prism response and the ball behaviour. The NES we present is directly amenable to mitigate other types of FIV.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.