Abstract: An analysis of the frictional mechanics of a steadily rotating belt drive is carried out using a physically appropriate creep-rate-dependent friction law. Unlike in belt-drive mechanics analyzed ...

Abstract: Belt drives have long been utilized in engine applications to power accessories such as alternators, pumps, compressors and fans. Drives employing a single, flat, “serpentine belt” tensioned by ...

Abstract: The paper investigates wave dispersion in two-dimensional, weakly nonlinear periodic lattices. A perturbation approach, originally developed for one-dimensional systems and extended herein, allows ...

Abstract: This study is motivated by the need to understand the elastodynamic response of belts in frictional contact with pulleys. To this end, a simplified model for belt/pulley contact is used to ...

Abstract: A spatial string model incorporating a nonlinear (and nonconservative) material law is proposed using finite deformation continuum mechanics. The resulting model is shown to reduce to the classical ...