Elastoplastic deformation occurs widely in engineering impact. Although many empirical solutions of elastoplastic impact between two spheres have been obtained, the analytical solution, verified by means of other methods, to the impact model has not been put forward. This paper proposes a dynamic pattern of elastoplastic impact for two spheres with low relative velocity, in which three stages are introduced and elastic and plastic regions are both considered. Finite element analyses with various parameters are carried out to validate the above model. The numerical results prove to agree with the theoretical predictions very well. Based on this model, the dissipation nature of elastoplastic impact are then analyzed, and the conclusion can be drawn that materials with lower yield strength, higher elastic modulus, and higher mass density have better attenuation and dissipation effects. The study provides a basis to predict the particle impact damping containing plastic deformation and to model the impact damped vibration system enrolling microparticles as a damping agent.
The energy dissipation mechanisms of conventional impact damper (CID) are mainly momentum exchange and friction. During the impact process, a lot of vibration energy cannot be exhausted but reverberated among the vibration partners. Besides, the CID may produce the additional vibration to the system or even amplify the response in the low-frequency vibration. To overcome these shortcomings, this paper proposes a new fine particle impact damper (FPID) which for the first time introduces the fine particle plastic deformation as an irreversible energy sink. Then, the experiments of the cantilevered beam with the CID and that with the FPID are, respectively, carried out to investigate the behavior of FPID. The experimental results indicate that the FPID has a better performance in vibration damping than in the CID and the FPID works well in control of the vibration with frequency lower than 50 Hz, which is absent to the non-obstructive particle damper. Thus, the FPID has a bright and significant application future because most of the mechanical vibration falls in the range of low freqency.
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