How To Stop Structures from SHAKING: LEGO Saturn V Tuned Mass Damper

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This video is about Tuned Mass Dampers, which can be used to reduce or avoid unwanted vibrations, swaying, swinging, bending, etc on engineered structures ranging from buildings, skyscrapers, electricity power transmission lines, airplane engines, formula one race cars, etc. TMD's use damped coupled oscillators.

REFERENCES
Taipei Tower TMD Photo licensed from: Louie Psihoyos psihoyos.com
Coupled oscillators: reed.edu/physics/faculty/wheeler/documents/Soph…
Related things: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge_damper
Applications: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper#Mass_da…
Formula 1 cars: formula1-dictionary.net/mass_damper.html
Aircraft engines: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_pendulum_abso…
Audio speaker cones: focal.com/en/tmd-tuned-mass-damper

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