A convenient method was developed to estimate the tangential contact stiffness between dry friction dampers using the general finite element method(FEM) software.The influences of various parameters such as normal preload
friction coefficient
damper material properties and the radius of the cylinder damper etc on the contact stiffness were investigated in detail.The results show that
the contact stiffness improves with increase in these parameters.A formula of calculating the tangential contact stiffness for variable normal preload was obtained by fitting the results
making it more conveniently to take into account the variety of contact stiffness in calculating the nonlinear response of shrouded blade instantaneously.Eventually
influences of the contact stiffness on the shrouded blade nonlinear response were studied with the formula
the results indicate that
the resonant frequency of the blade increase and the peak amplitude decrease gradually with increase in the contact stiffness
and all of which are close to a fixed value respectively.