...Anup Pydah; R. C. Batra We present a novel beam-based vibration energy harvester, and use a structural tailoring concept to tune its natural frequencies. Using a solution of the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory equations, verified with finite element (FE) solutions of shell theory equations, we show...

...Jonathan Salvi; Egidio Rizzi; Emiliano Rustighi; Neil S. Ferguson Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are typically introduced and calibrated as natural passive control devices for the vibration mitigation of the steady-state response of primary structures subjected to persistent excitations. Otherwise...

..., 2018. Assoc. Editor: Alper Erturk. 16 12 2017 03 03 2018 Modal analysis Non-linear vibration Smart materials Structures Technological progresses have led to production of low power, small size, and light weight wireless sensors to form a network of sensor nodes...

...Zhi-Guang Song; Tian-Zhi Yang; Feng-Ming Li; Erasmo Carrera; Peter Hagedorn In traditional active flutter control, piezoelectric materials are used to increase the stiffness of the aeroelastic structure by providing an active stiffness, and usually the active stiffness matrix is symmetric...

.... Struct. , 5 ( 5 ), pp. 565 – 575 . 10.1088/0964-1726/5/5/006 [2] Spencer , B. F. , and Nagarajaiah , S. , 2003 , “ State of the Art of Structural Control ,” ASCE J. Struct. Eng. , 129 ( 7 ), pp. 845 – 856 . 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2003)129:7(845) [3] Wang , D. H...

... Mechatronics Non-linear vibration Smart materials Electro-mechanical systems Structures For the last decade, vibration energy harvesting has flourished as a major research area with great potential in the real-world applications, which can be found across a broad spectrum of power levels, ranging...

... received February 26, 2018; published online April 18, 2018. Editor: I. Y. (Steve) Shen. 05 07 2017 26 02 2018 Rotor dynamics Smart materials Structural dynamics Structures Control Turbomachinery blades within a single stage are nominally identical and, when attached...

... vibration Smart materials Vibration control Noise control Structures Following the development of an initial, continuous theoretical model in the preceding paper, a model verification/update is completed. If the flexible, mechanical system can be assumed to be linear time invariant...

... for vibration suppression of flexible systems are uniaxial and can only affect structure response in the direction of the applied force. The application of piezoelectric bender actuators as active resonators may prove to be advantageous over typical, uniaxial actuators as they can dynamically apply both...

... of discretized equations of motion are obtained through a variational approach. Mechatronics Non-linear vibration Sensors and actuators Smart materials Stability Electro-mechanical systems Structures The third challenge is that a realistic PZT thin-film microactuator employs partial electrodes...

... of curvature are equal. Finally, the unidirectional snap-through renders an explanation to the experimental findings in Part 1. Mechatronics Non-linear vibration Sensors and actuators Smart materials Stability Electro-mechanical systems Structures Although the discretized formulation...

...). State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures (Grant No. NUAA-MCMS-0516G01). References [1] Soedel , W. , 2004 , Vibrations of Shells and Plates—Revised and Expanded , 3rd ed. , Marcel Dekker , New York . [2] Qatu , M.-S. K. , 2004 , Vibration...

.... Editor: Stefano Lenci. 16 11 2017 28 01 2018 Fig. 4 The structure of ANFIS with three inputs The output of layer 1 is given in Eq. (10) , where { a i , b i , and c i } are parameters that influence the shape of the fuzzy function. A , B...

.... The relation between the magnetic induction B and magnetization M is [ 68 ] (7) M = D B Damping Dynamics Materials Smart materials Vibration control Acoustics Structures Base isolation is one of the most promising structural control techniques to mitigate the vibrations...

... OF V IBRATION AND A COUSTICS . Manuscript received December 11, 2016; final manuscript received September 11, 2017; published online October 20, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Lei Zuo. 11 12 2016 11 09 2017 Mechatronics Smart materials Electro-mechanical systems Structures...

...] Erturk , A. , Hoffmann , J. , and Inman , D. , 2009 , “ A Piezomagnetoelastic Structure for Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting ,” Appl. Phys. Lett. , 94 ( 25 ), p. 254102 . 10.1063/1.3159815 [54] Barton , D. A. , Burrow , S. G. , and Clare , L. R. , 2010 , “ Energy...

... 2016 10 04 2017 Active vibration Damping Dynamics Mechatronic systems Modal analysis Non-linear vibration Smart materials System identification Vibration control Noise control Structures Electro-mechanical systems Very often when dealing with real systems, nonlinear...

...Hornsen Tzou; Bolei Deng; Huiyu Li The converse flexoelectric effect, i.e., the polarization (or electric field) gradient-induced internal stress (or strain), can be utilized to actuate and control flexible structures. This study focuses on the microscopic actuation behavior and effectiveness...

...Hongping Hu; Longxiang Dai; Hao Chen; Shan Jiang; Hairen Wang; Vincent Laude We propose two methods to broaden the operation bandwidth of a nonlinear pinned–pinned piezoelectric bimorph power harvester. The energy-scavenging structure consists of a properly poled and electroded flexible bimorph...

..., multiresonant metamaterial structures with closely located BGs have been proposed and widely studied. However, the analysis is generally limited to two-dimensional (2D) structures neglecting the finite height of any real resonator. The aim of this paper is the comparison of the wave dispersion for two...