A rotational damper is proposed to be combined with an intermediate lateral damper for vibration control of a cable with considerable bending stiffness.
Dynamics of a cable/tensioned beam with both lateral and rotational dampers at an intermediate location is characterized in general.
Explicit expressions are derived for determining cable complex frequency, damping ratio and optimal damper coefficients for small frequency shift cases.
Cable damping can receive an increment of up to 30 percent by the proposed scheme compared to the traditional strategy using only one lateral damper.