TABITHA CLIVER, KELLER COGSWELL, AND FRANK RAMIREZ

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, ORLANDO, FL, USA
Motivation
Excessive vibrations can lead to discomfort,
noise, and even mechanical failure.
Adding a constrained layer using an adhesive
is one of the most cost effective solutions to
reduce the vibrations.
Experimental Set-up
A beam, clamped
at one end, is
connected to a
shaker to induce
various, specific modal frequencies.
The logarithmic decay of the beams deflection is
analyzed using an accelerometer, which also acts as
the tip mass at the end of the beam.
Foil tape is also present on the beam during the
last portion of the lab to investigate its contribution
to damping.
The data was able to be collected through a system
of NI DAQ USB 9234, amplifier,
audio/splitter/BNC, and banana plugs.
Objective
Determine the modal damping using the
logarithmic decrement method
Determine the modal damping using the half-
power bandwidth method
Determine behavior of modal damping when foil
tape is implemented

Theory
When systems
undergoes motion due to
vibration, the viscoelastic
layer does not move to
the same extent as the
base layer, and. This
energy is lost due to the
shear deformation of the
adhesive.
Discussion
Future Work
Acknowledgements
References
HPBM
Results
The modal damping values found from the
logarithmic decrement method were slightly
lower than those found using the half-power
bandwidth method. Logarithmic decrement can
be used to find free decay modal damping where
half-power bandwidth method requires the beam
to be excited over a range of frequencies to find
the modal damping.
The foil tape adds some mass to the structure
which causes the mode frequencies to slightly
increase. This is only the case when the tape was
not covering a mode on the bar. As more tape
was applied down the bar, the 3rd and 4th modes
began to decrease from the foil tape damping it.
So the foil tape overall increases the modal
frequencies due to its mass, but if the tape is
located at a modal node location, that specific
modes frequency will decrease.
With free decay the modal damping was equal
to .013 and with free decay having the shaker
attached the modal damping was .018.
Subtracting these from one another, the modal
damping of the shaker is around .005.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th modes,
shown here, are used to calculated
the damping ratio using the
logarithmic decrement method
then using the half-power
bandwidth method
Half-Power
Bandwidth Method
An analysis into a wider range of frequencies
for the higher modes
Various viscoelastic layers could be implanted
A multi-degree system would be analyzed to
determine how the parameters differentiate
Comparison of Deflection plots with/without the shaker (without-left, with-right)
Free Decay
2nd Mode 0.055
3rd Mode 0.022
4th Mode 0.011
0.028
0.015
0.08
0.028
0.076
0.015
0.068
0.024
0.019
0.083
0.028
No Foil Tape 6" Foil Tape Top (11"-17") 12" Foil Tape Top (11"-23") 24" Foil Tape Top&Bottom(11"-23")
Damping Ratios
Logarithmic
Decrement Method