Movers and shakers: Granular damping in microgravity

Details Movers and shakers: Granular damping in microgravity Movers and shakers: Granular damping in microgravity

2010-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2343v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 9 figures

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The response of an oscillating granular damper to an initial perturbation is studied using experiments performed in microgravity and granular dynamics mulations. High-speed video and image processing techniques are used to extract experimental data. An inelastic hard sphere model is developed to perform simulations and the results are in excellent agreement with the experiments. The granular damper behaves like a frictional damper and a linear decay of the amplitude is bserved. This is true even for the simulation model, where friction forces are absent. A simple expression is developed which predicts the optimal damping conditions for a given amplitude and is independent of the oscillation frequency and particle inelasticities.

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