Vibration Responses for SDOF System: II – Coulomb and Structural Damping
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The principal objective of this paper is to deal with the vibration analysis of single degree of freedom system with Coulomb damping and structural damping. Closed-form expressions in terms of vibration amplitude or magnification factor and phase angle are derived. Due to the difficulty and complexity in determining the damping value in practical systems, concepts of equivalent viscous damping coefficient are introduced and explained that how to treat and receive this coefficient properly. Important observations are found and clearly discussed herein.
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