...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...

...; final manuscript received March 13, 2018; published online May 4, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Mahmoud Hussein. 30 07 2017 13 03 2018 Dynamics Random vibration Smart materials Vibration control Structures Many structural components in engineering can be modeled as a beam...

..., 2018; published online April 19, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Mohammed Daqaq. 14 08 2017 21 02 2018 Mechatronics Non-linear vibration Smart materials Electro-mechanical systems Structures For the last decade, vibration energy harvesting has flourished as a major research area...

... Induced by Wakes ,” J. Mech. Eng. Sci. , 8 ( 1 ), pp. 15 – 21 . 10.1243/JMES_JOUR_1966_008_004_02 [3] Hodges , C. , 1982 , “ Confinement of Vibration by Structural Irregularity ,” J. Sound Vib. , 82 ( 3 ), pp. 411 – 424 . 10.1016/S0022-460X(82)80022-9 [4] Castanier , M. P...

... ] [ C b 2 ⋯ F b 2 ] [ C a ⋯ F a ] ] T Two experiments were developed to verify the prior work, and their descriptions are as follows. A series of experimental modal tests were performed on the structure for varying...

... 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...

... Stability Electro-mechanical systems Structures For the last decade, bistability behavior of micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) has attracted significant attention of researchers [ 1 – 17 ]. One unique phenomenon of these bistable devices is the ability to migrate from one equilibrium...

... that is very different from elastic or electrostatic bistable structures. The unique snap-through mechanism could also be used to qualitatively explain the experimental measurement reported in Fig. 2 of Part 1 [ 1 ]. Although the discretized formulation was available, its equilibrium and stability analyses...

... of China (Grant Nos. 11702130, 11472241, and 11172262). Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20170773). Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation (Grant No. NUAA-NP2016203). State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures (Grant...

... of Piezoelectric Bonded Smart Structures Using PID Algorithm ,” Chin. J. Aeronaut. , 28 ( 1 ), pp. 305 – 313 . 10.1016/j.cja.2014.12.005 [4] Tzou , H. S. , Lee , H. J. , and Arnold , S. M. , 2004 , “Smart Materials, Precision Sensors/Actuators, Smart Structures, and Structronic Systems...

... . Manuscript received July 22, 2017; final manuscript received January 17, 2018; published online February 23, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Alper Erturk. 22 07 2017 17 01 2018 Damping Dynamics Materials Smart materials Vibration control Acoustics Structures Base isolation is one...

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.... , 2009 , “ Nonlinear Energy Harvesting ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. , 102 ( 8 ), p. 080601 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.080601 [53] Erturk , A. , Hoffmann , J. , and Inman , D. , 2009 , “ A Piezomagnetoelastic Structure for Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting ,” Appl. Phys. Lett. , 94 ( 25...

... 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...