Optimal damping

In Den Hartog s study, an undamped SDOF dynamic system subjected to sinusoidal loading was considered. For a given mass ratio ofTMD to the primary stmcture, p, he suggested that the optimal frequency ratio ofthe TMD to the primary, (r and the optimal damping ratio ofTMD, ( J, can be calculated by the following equations... 

Figure 3. (a) Optimal damping ratio ) and optimal frequency ratios of the five MTMD units versus... 

We have indeed the same requirements as in the multistep case where stability at infinity plays a central role (see Def. 5.2.2 and Th. 5.2.3). There, the method with optimal damping at infinity is the BDF. 

Another approach for defining the optimal value of T] was proposed by Krenk (2005), who suggested to equate the ordinates of three points A, B, and the point in the middle of the previous two points. By doing so he has derived a new value for the optimal damping coefficient, which is 15 % larger than the classical result (Eq. 24) ... 

NF Optimized for materials with high sound damping 0.01 to 10.5 MHz (-3 dB)... 

The HILL-SCAN 304INF board is optimized for low test frequencies so that materials with high sound damping such as concrete can be sueeessfully inspeeted by the echo technique. 

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Thole s polarizability parameters were selected to optimize the molecular polarizabilities for a set of 16 molecules. The method was later expanded to fit 52 molecules [146], It must be emphasized that this electric-field damping method is totally independent of the polarization scheme used. For the Drude and fluctuating charge methods only /i(r) is required, whereas for methods based on induced dipoles both /i(r) and /2(r) are necessary. In the context of the induced dipole model other models were proposed since the formula of Thole does not provide enough attenuation. For example, in Ref. [152] the field is evaluated using... 

The step change in input value from positive down to baseline initiates a change in the output reading. The system is un-damped because the output value continues to oscillate around the baseline after the input value has changed. The amplitude of these oscillations would remain constant, as shown, if no energy was lost to the surroundings. This situation is, therefore, theoretical as energy is inevitably lost, even in optimal conditions such as a vacuum. 

Here, is the distance between atoms i andj, C(/ is a dispersion coefficient for atoms i andj, which can be calculated directly from tabulated properties of the individual atoms, and /dampF y) is a damping function to avoid unphysical behavior of the dispersion term for small distances. The only empirical parameter in this expression is S, a scaling factor that is applied uniformly to all pairs of atoms. In applications of DFT-D, this scaling factor has been estimated separately for each functional of interest by optimizing its value with respect to collections of molecular complexes in which dispersion interactions are important. There are no fundamental barriers to applying the ideas of DFT-D within plane-wave DFT calculations. In the work by Neumann and Perrin mentioned above, they showed that adding dispersion corrections to forces... 

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