{"title":"Multibody system dynamic analysis and payload swing control of tower crane","authors":"Kun Li, Man-shing Liu, Zuqing Yu, P. Lan, N. Lu","doi":"10.1177/14644193221101994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221101994","url":null,"abstract":"A new payload swing control method considering the vibration of tower crane is proposed in this study. The coupling between the structural vibration and the payload swing is neglected in existing studies on tower crane swing suppression. Changes of sling length are considered as disturbances. They cause the existing methods of swing suppression method ineffectual in the actual working situation. In contrast, the structural vibration of the tower crane is taken into account in this study. At the same time, the sling length is regarded as a control variable to reduce the payload swing. A new swing suppression algorithm is proposed in conjunction with phase plane analysis method. In addition, a systematical tower crane multibody system dynamic analysis platform with changing of sling length is established to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm. The traditional finite element method is used to model the tower body and boom of tower crane while the Arbitrary Lagrange Euler Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation (ALE-ANCF) cable element is applied for modeling the sling. This two parts are connected with sliding joint obtaining the tower crane multibody system model. Numerical examples show that the proposed method can reduce the swing amplitude the payload effectively when considering the coupling between the structural vibration and the payload swing.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"22 1","pages":"407 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86332080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Fang, Shuai Wang, Da Cui, Qiushi Bi, Chuliang Yan
{"title":"Multi-body dynamics model of crawler wall-climbing robot","authors":"Yi Fang, Shuai Wang, Da Cui, Qiushi Bi, Chuliang Yan","doi":"10.1177/14644193221099110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221099110","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a crawler-type wall-climbing robot with negative pressure adsorption is designed. The dynamic model of the robot is established based on the method of discretizing the force load of the track shoe. The correctness of the kinematic model and dynamic model is proved by comparing two different ways of virtual prototype simulation and prototype experiment. According to the simulation results of the dynamic model and virtual prototype, the influence of design parameters on the motion performance of the wall-climbing robot is analyzed. The smaller the speed difference between the two tracks of the robot, the longer the gauge between the two tracks, and the greater the inclination of the adsorption wall, the larger the turning radius of the robot will be. The research content based on this paper can provide a new design optimization method and theoretical basis for improving crawler wall-climbing robots and crawler vehicles.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"40 1","pages":"535 - 553"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87484548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymmetry analysis of rolling contact for the heavy load radial tyre","authors":"Zhihao Liu, Yixun Liu, Q. Gao","doi":"10.1177/14644193221112846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221112846","url":null,"abstract":"A flexible carcass ring model with a two-dimensional elastic foundation that combined a flexible carcass ring and a two-dimensional spring element was used to analyze the contact boundary of heavy load radial tyres with a large section ratio. A complete tyre model based on the flexible ring was established and the contact features were studied by solving the theoretical boundary for its contact and non-contact zones. The contact stiffness and imprint were validated in rolling and stiffness experiments. The scope for contact estimation was examined by using an in-tyre strain sensor and the influence of the axle load, inflation pressure and rolling speed on the asymmetry of the contact imprint was analyzed. The experimental and theoretical results show that the contact front/rear angle and contact imprint can be estimated exactly by computing the contact boundary. In-tyre strain signals can be further used to estimate the length of the contact imprint. This research can be used to enrich existing simplified physical tyre models.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"16 1","pages":"521 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81715378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A quasi-static contact model for global dynamic simulation of multibody system with contact-impact","authors":"Jianyao Wang, Hongdong Wang","doi":"10.1177/14644193221116281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221116281","url":null,"abstract":"The global impact dynamics of multibody system is challenging due to the multi-scale characteristics of slow-changing non-contact process and fast-changing impact process. To solve the contradiction between the impact accuracy and the global simulation efficiency, a novel quasi-static contact model is proposed where the local contact domain is finely discretized and the energy loss caused by elastoplasticity is considered, and the real-time force-displacement interaction is established to execute the global integration capably. Through the experimental case of flexible pendulum impact, the proposed model is compared with measurements and existing methods, including impulse method, continuous contact force method and nonlinear finite element method. It is shown that the impulse method and continuous contact force method are both sensitive to the coefficient of restitution, yielding uncertain results. The nonlinear finite element method can accurately describe the impact process, but its calculation scale is too large to apply to the global simulation. The quasi-static model can accurately describe the response of the global process and does not rely on artificial selection of any parameters, and the calculation efficiency is greatly improved compared with the nonlinear finite element method.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"15 1","pages":"511 - 520"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84287561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel nonlinear variable damping device and its application for the systems with uncertain parameters","authors":"Hamed Saber, Farhad S. Samani, F. Pellicano","doi":"10.1177/14644193221115007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221115007","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the performance of a novel nonlinear viscous dashpot with variable damping. The new proposed dashpot can be utilized in devices for instance dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs). When the vibration absorber is tuned to the bridge's fundamental frequency, it represents a robust effect in controlling the vibrations of the bridge; however, a DVA is very sensitive to frequency detuning. The proposed nonlinear dashpot can be applied in a passive vibration absorber and upgrades it to a nonlinear variable damping one. Since the parameter of such DVA can be adjusted, it is the so-called nonlinear adjustable DVA. The mentioned dashpot, provides a quadratic nonlinearity for the damping element. The proposed dashpot in this study possesses a simple mechanism, which can handle large range of flow rates of fluid, smoothly without turbulence, in the oil channel. To investigate the effectiveness of an adjustable vibration absorber, a semi-active DVA with variable damping, and stiffness elements is applied on a footbridge; where, the footbridge is experienced variations of the fundamental frequency over time, and is subjected to a walking pedestrian. For the case study in the present study, a vibration reduction of 31% in comparison with the attached traditional passive DVA with constant parameters was achieved. The results show that, by using the proposed nonlinear dashpot, presented in this study, into an attached DVA, the footbridge will experience about 10% more deflection reduction concerning a classical linear DVA.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"10 1","pages":"660 - 671"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90938122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation of high speed rotating dynamics in constrained mechanical systems","authors":"Ping Zhou, H. Ren","doi":"10.1177/14644193221115013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221115013","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed rotating motion is an important issue in mechanical systems such as propellers or turbine blades. Difficulties occurs in the simulation of high-speed rotating dynamics, resulting in unexpected and unreliable numerical results. For example, the calculated angular velocity usually doesn’t increase linearly but grows until reaching a saturation value under a constant torque. This phenomenon will be more complex in constrained mechanical systems, especially in a flexible system. This work aims to address this issue that arises in the simulation of high-speed rotating dynamics, where a new formulation of non-linear floating frame of reference formulation is proposed to solve constrained flexible system. Pros and cons of various numerical techniques in the field of multibody system dynamics are compared and discussed here. These techniques involve the Euler parameter formulation, local rotational parameters, minimal coordinate set approach and the nonlinear elastic formulation. Cases with constrained rigid or flexible system are studied here. This work provides an insight into practical simulations of high-speed rotating mechanical systems.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"20 1","pages":"503 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74549800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioinspired flapping wing UAV and its kinematic analysis—a novel approach","authors":"Bhushan Dewangan, Debendra Pradhan, H. Roy","doi":"10.1177/14644193221113664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221113664","url":null,"abstract":"A rich development in the domain of flapping wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (FWUAV) is not yet entirely sufficient to implement the findings of real-life situations. Using the limited knowledge of this domain, this work enlightens the scientific community by introducing a homegrown, patented flapping mechanism of foldable wing aerial vehicle. The synchronized dual wing flapping mechanism consists of a crank slotted lever, a gear train and a special type of 4 bar kinematic chain. The entire sets are powered by a DC motor through crank connected motor shaft. Flapping cycle works on quick return principle generated by crank slotted lever mechanism and foldable wing structure by the special type 4 bar chain with gear train ensure the controlled flapping frequency, twist angle, altitude gain and attitude parameters (Pitch, roll, yaw). This work majorly focuses on the kinematics of the developed bio mimic mechanism by observing the variation of flapping wing orientation, angular velocity and angular acceleration with respect to the crank rotation as well as different crank speeds. These analytically obtained kinematic parameters are further validated after developing a three-dimensional model of the said mechanism as well as multibody analysis by MSC ADAMS. The patterns of the kinematic parameters such that angular displacement, angular velocity and angular acceleration between output and input links are similar and its validation guarantees the correctness of developed mechanism. The kinematic analyzes of linkages are also essential for dynamic study as well as fabrication of prototype.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"167 1","pages":"570 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85166466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracking control of moving flexible system by incorporation of feedback-based vibrational energy sink in model predictive control algorithm","authors":"M. Homaeinezhad, F. Fotoohinia","doi":"10.1177/14644193221102105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221102105","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new approach towards the nonlinear problem of tracking control for mobile multivariable vibrational structure featuring an Euler-Bernoulli vibrational beam. The control scheme involves obtaining interactions between flexural and rigid motions of the multivariable continuum mechanics system with actuator force limitation both regarding domain and frequency bandwidth. To this end, the boundary control inputs are selected prioritizing two tasks, satisfying actuator limitations and obtaining minimum possible tracking error. The former is employed as hard constraint in model predictive control (MPC) scheme while the latter is considered as soft constraint. The control scheme is adjusted such that when actuator limits are exceeded, the soft constraints are relaxed to maintain stability. In order to provide smooth tracking, Euler-Bernoulli transverse vibration is attenuated by incorporating Feedback Vibrational Energy Sink (FVES) method in obtaining control law. Hence, actuators are manipulated such that total vibrational energy of flexible beam is damped without using passive or conventional active dampers. The accuracy of the proposed method has been verified via FEA-based simulations.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"38 1","pages":"368 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72902413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An autonomous method for diagnosing raceway defects and misalignment in a self-aligning rolling-element bearing","authors":"Vivek Parmar, V. Saran, S. Harsha","doi":"10.1177/14644193221098891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221098891","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an autonomous method to diagnose a double-row self-aligning ball bearing for any dynamic misalignment or localized defects, using vibration signals. The frequency spectra from the experimental investigation revealed that irrespective of the health condition of the bearing i.e. either healthy or defective, the frequency spectrum had a clear cage frequency peak whenever the system was under dynamic-misalignment. An improved version of Harmonic Product Spectrum (HPS) called sideband product spectrum (SPS) was used to identify the cage frequency peaks which was preprocessed using kurtosis-based band-pass filter and parameter-optimized variational mode decomposition (VMD) algorithm. A mathematical model is also presented to analyze the dynamic behavior of double-row self-aligning ball bearing under such conditions. From the model, it was realized that during misalignment, the contact load shared by the rolling elements, generates some moment which has a tendency to rotate the bearing’s inner-race about the radial axis and thus resulting in a wobbly rotary motion. This wobbly motion of the inner race in fact characterizes the bearing for dynamic misalignment. The simulated results were in accordance with the experimentally obtained results.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"17 1","pages":"470 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88062767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Zhang, Guangqiang Wu, Guoqiang Zhao, Daguan Chen
{"title":"Response of centrifugal pendulum vibration absorber considering gravity at low engine speed","authors":"Yi Zhang, Guangqiang Wu, Guoqiang Zhao, Daguan Chen","doi":"10.1177/14644193221075452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14644193221075452","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the performance of the centrifugal pendulum vibration absorber’s (CPVA) under the influence of centrifugal force and gravity fields. The focus was on identifying the factor that influenced noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) problems that originate owing to the centrifugal pendulum absorber being at low engine speed such as engine start-stop or idle. Consequently, mathematical models were established employing Lagrange equation of the second kind, analytical solutions were obtained using the method of multiple scales, and several simple elementary mathematical equations describing the movement of the absorber were derived. Further, the analytical solutions were compared with the numerical simulation results of the complete non-linear equation of motion, which indicated that the former were suitable for studying the performance of CPVA. The theoretical analysis of the application with four absorbers and two absorbers under gravity field was conducted. The absorbers were found to be not always synchronized in the gravity field in certain special conditions such as lower engine speed range or small viscous damping. It was concluded that larger viscous damping coefficient can result in an improvement in the synchronization or reduce the range of nonlinear jumps caused by changes in excitation torque. Further, super-harmonic resonance of CPVA under the gravity field was determined and exact response was calculated, wherein the term “2nd order response gravity impact factor” was defined. In addition, the effects of CPVA installation angle relative to engine ignition angle were analyzed, and a set of tautochronic epicycloid CPVA was tested to verify the findings. The analytical solutions were consistent with the test results, thereby proving the applicability of the research method and results in a vehicle.","PeriodicalId":54565,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K-Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics","volume":"27 1","pages":"274 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88664588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}