Abstract: Cylindrical compression springs have been commonly exploited in mechanical systems for years and their behavior is considered as well identified. Nevertheless, it appears that, even though old research studies suggest ...

Abstract: Most research papers that exploit conical springs focus only on conical springs with a constant pitch. In order to increase the range of possibilities for designers, this paper proposes a study of conical springs with other ...

Abstract: The bistable nonlinear energy sink (NES) shows high efficiency in mitigating vibration through targeted energy transfer (TET). It performs well in low- and high-energy input cases, whereas, for a cubic NES, TET occurs only ...

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of a nonlinear energy sink (NES) intended to attenuate vibration induced in a harmonically forced linear oscillator (LO) and working under the principle of targeted energy transfer (TET). ...