Modeling and Experimental Validation of Two Adjacent Portal Frame Structures Subjected to Vibro-impact

Abstract In many engineering applications, there are systems that exhibit a series of collisions in a certain amount of time, for example the impact of floating ice in ships and the rubbing between stationary and rotary parts in turbomachinery. In many of these situations, it is of vital importance to know how the impacts affect the overall system behavior for the correct functioning or the prediction of faults in the system. This can be done by proposing models that can represent the system when it is subjected to sudden impacts in its oscillation movement. However, due to the nonlinear and n...