Shock vibration control using active momentum exchange impact damper - Experimental study

The authors´ previous study proposed a novel shock vibration control using the active momentum exchange impact damper (AMEID) in simulations. By using this method, the shock vibration of the vibratory system is greatly reduced by transferring a part of its momentum to the damper mass. This feature is effective for suppressing the first large peak value of the acceleration response due to a shock load. In this paper, the active control of shock vibration using AMEID in actual conditions is evaluated by experiments. A one-degree-of-freedom vibratory system is used as the controlled object. The controller is designed by using the discrete-time LQR optimal control theory. The effectiveness of the AMEID approach is verified experimentally.