Design of a particle damper and experimental study on vibration damping of the pipeline

In this work, we designed a particle damper which can be conveniently clamped on to a pipeline without affecting the existing structure, showing a promising application in vibration reduction of real aircraft. Based on the designed particle damper, the impact of particle filling rate on the vibration reduction effect, the effect of EDEM simulation on the energy consumption of particles in the vibration process of the damper, and the result of actual vibration reduction test of particle damper installed on hydraulic pipeline were investigated. It is found that the vibration of the pipeline decreases first and then increases with the increase of particle filling rate. The particle filling rate corresponding to the maximum particle energy consumption rate is consistent with that of the minimum pipeline vibration acceleration during the test, that is, from 94.9% to 97.9%. The simulation results are in good agreement with the test results. Moreover, the vibration of the hydraulic pipeline and actual aircraft pipeline are both obviously suppressed after the installation of the particle damper. These results fully demonstrate the effectiveness and practicability of the aircraft pipeline particle damper.