Forced Vibration of a Base-Excited Single-Degree-of-Freedom System With Coulomb Friction

Using the “stopping region of motion” concept, a brief analytical technique is worked out for the behavior of the linear forced vibratory system under the influence of a Coulomb friction force. The following points are clarified by the above technique: 1. The behavior of the system is completely determined by the three non-dimensional parameters of nondimensional friction force, frequency ratio and damping ratio. 2. The vibratory system undergoes a periodic vibration with stopping periods when the mass cannot move. These stopping periods increase at lower exciting frequencies, owing to Coulomb friction. 3. The relation between the kind of motion occurring in the system and the above three parameters can be obtained theoretically and verified experimentally.