Aplicação de modelos teórico-computacionais para simulação do comportamento dinâmico de estruturas amortecidas através de materiais viscoelásticos

Abstract

Advances in materials technology and development of new sophisticated construction techniques allowed the construction of lighter structures and with high bearing capacity. This process started during the industrial revolution and extends to present days and imposed the necessity to check, along the design phase, the dynamic behavior of structures, with few exceptions. Despite that, some structures have large amplitudes of displacements under unexpected actions. This unwanted situation speeds up the fatigue of materials and in certain situations prevent the use of the structure and/or equipment. An efficient way to attenuate these vibrations is through passive vibration control systems with viscoelastic materials. In this sense, this work will address the GHM method used in numerical modeling of viscoelastic materials in time domain with Finite Element Method. In order to validate this method, some types of finite elements formulated using this method are presented and their responses in frequency domain obtained for a given structure are compared with those obtained by classical formulation. Are also outlined a few examples using this method. Sandwich beams and a riser model are modeled numerically and the natural frequencies and damping ratios identified with the numerical responses are compared with those identified through experimental tests.