Talk:Tuned mass damper

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What makes it tuned?

The section where it talks about large ocean going vessels containing a mass damper is incorrect. To reduce harmonics and vibrations the transverse frames are adjusted in the stern framing to cancel out any signifigant vibrations. Maybe there is mass dampers in a cruise ship, but I know for a fact that commercial ships do not have mass dampers. The only damper system I have seen was a series of tanks that would flood against the rolling of the ship and serve to dampen the rolling of the ship.

[edit] 'How they work' section expansion

The explanation should be the longest section, yet it is the shortest. There should be a more thorough explanation, especially for the different types of dampers: Active, passive, pendulum active/passive, inverted pendulum, and liquid (all mentioned in the first external link [1]). Kreachure 22:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Aye, there's a lot of hand-wavers on Wiki. If I can generate some good plots I'll try and explain it. Greglocock 08:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Is that any good? is it too complex or too simple? or too confusing? Greglocock 09:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mess

This article is a mess. All those graphs and stuff without any caption or anything. What does this mean, and why are there no units? --Ysangkok 16:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

well I guess I asked for criticism. I've added captions. There is an explanation. There are no units becuase units are irrelevant, and there are no labels on the axes because that graphing package doesn't do them.. Greglocock 01:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)