GENERALITIES OF PASSIVE VIBRATION
DAMPERS ISOLATING VIBRATIONS

N. A. Dokukovaa and P. N. Kononb

UDC 539.0

Methods are proposed for investigating complex dynamic 
systems, whose equilibrium equations are reduced to two coupled inhomogeneous 
second-order equations with indivisible variables. It is shown that 
the properties of such mechanical systems can be investigated on the 
basis of general rules. Relations between the physical parameters 
of the indicated systems, which substantially simplify cumbersome 
numerical calculations and lead to simple analytical formulas, have 
been derived. The methods proposed can be used for investigating the 
generalities of passive uniaxial vibration dampers.

a Institute of Mechanics and Machine Reliability, 
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 12 Akademicheskaya 
Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; e-mail: root@ncppm.bas-net.by; 
bBelarusian State University, 4 F. Skorina Ave., 
Minsk, 220050, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 194-199, March-April, 2006. Original article 
submitted February 28, 2005; revision submitted March 24, 2005.