A string-type vibration absorber is proposed to suppress en-ergy from a vibrating beam. A cantilever beam is considered with a harmonic force applied at its free end. The vibration ab-sorber is a string attached to the beam at two different points. The string is rigidly connected to the fixed end of the beam and through a spring and damper to a second point on the beam. The finite element method is used to model the system and a reduced order model is obtained through modal reduction performed on both the string and the beam. The steady state amplitude of the transverse vibration of the beam is calculated using the first two modes of the beam-string system. It is found that the maximum amplitude at a given point of the beam occurs at a forcing fre-quency which is a root of a sixth order polynomial.
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