Dynamics Analysis of Nonlinear Energy Sink for Metal-Rubber Vibration Absorber

Recent advances in the application of the nonlinear energy sink under a sinusoidal excitation make it possible to investigate metal-rubber vibration absorber. To provide such a vibration absorber for the integrated spacecraft platform, we analyze the targeted energy transfer of the simplified model with nonlinear energy sink using the complex-variables averaging method. Theoretical study shows two quasi-periodic responses that are essentially different in this nonlinear system. The steady-state response which is one of two quasi-periodic responses is caused by the linear instability of system, and another one appears as a result of the nonlinear normal modes between the linear and nonlinear oscillators, resulting from the energy transfer of different oscillators, and it can be used to vibration absorber. Secondly, this paper also discusses the performance of the proposed nonlinear absorber by using the phase portraits. All conclusion derived by the analytic model is verified numerically and the results are consistent with numerical simulations.