On the network of synchronized switch damping for blisks

This paper presents a new semi-active piezoelectric damping strategy for the vibration suppression of integrally bladed disk (blisk). The main novelty is the networking of the synchronized switch damping (SSD). Different from the independently shunted SSD broadly studied in the literature, in our approach the piezoelectric materials distributed to different blade sectors are first connected in few electric networks. The blades in the same network share a single SSD circuit. In this way, additional electrical energy channels are established, and the vibration energy can be thereby dissipated and redistributed globally. In addition, the overall number of the SSD circuits will be drastically reduced, decreasing the complexity of the system. To illustrate and demonstrate such an idea, numerical and experimental studies are conducted. First, We presents the governing equations of a general discrete blisk model with the SSD network and derive a linearization method to solve the steady-state solutions. Next, the optimal topologies of the SSD network for different vibrational modes are summarized through numerical simulation. The proposed network exhibits better performance than other candidates for the mistuned case. Then, through the Mont–Carlo simulation, statistical results prove that the network is also effective for the suppression of the amplitude magnification due to mistuning. Eventually, these findings are validated experimentally through a dummy blisk.