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RISArchitectural Synthesis and Analysis of Dual Cellular Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composites for Multifunctional Metastructures
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Recently, a cellular structure concept based on fluidic flexible matrix composites (F2MCs) was investigated for its potential of concurrently achieving multiple adaptive functions. Such structure consists of two fluidically ...
Prospects for Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Systems Designed Near the Elastic Stability Limit When Driven by Colored Noise
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Ambient vibration sources in many prime energy harvesting applications are characterized as having stochastic response with spectra concentrated at low frequencies and steadily reduced power density as frequency increases ...
Axial Suspension Compliance and Compression for Enhancing Performance of a Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvesting Beam System
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Developing energy harvesting platforms that are strongly sensitive to the low and diffused frequency spectra of common environmental vibration sources is a research objective receiving great recent attention. It has been ...
A Polynomial-Chaos-Based Multifidelity Approach to the Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of Online Simulations of Automotive Propulsion Systems
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: As a result of the increasing system complexity and more strict performance requirements, intelligent and robust decision-making and control capabilities are of great importance for future automotive propulsion systems. ...
Deployment Dynamics of Miura Origami Sheets
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Origami has great potential for creating deployable structures, however, most studies have focused on their static or kinematic features, while the complex and yet important dynamic behaviors of the origami deployment ...
A Disturbance Cancellation Perspective on Vibration Control Using a Bistable Snap Through Attachment
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: One approach to vibration control is to apply a force to a primary structure that opposes the excitation, effectively canceling the external disturbance. A familiar passive example of this approach is the lineartuned mass ...
Enhancing Structural Damage Identification Robustness to Noise and Damping With Integrated Bistable and Adaptive Piezoelectric Circuitry
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The accurate and reliable identification of damage in modern engineered structures is essential for timely corrective measures. Vibrationbased damage prediction has been studied extensively by virtue of its global damage ...
Adaptation of Energy Dissipation in a Mechanical Metastable Module Excited Near Resonance
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated that the energetic vibrations of strategically designed negative stiffness inclusions may lead to large and adaptable damping in structural/material systems. Many researchers examine these ...
Energy Harvester Synthesis Via Coupled Linear Bistable System With Multistable Dynamics
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: In this research we study the dynamics of a coupled linear oscillatorbistable energy harvester system. The method of harmonic balance and perturbation analysis are used to predict the existence and stability of the bistable ...
Excitation Induced Stability in a Bistable Duffing Oscillator: Analysis and Experiments
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The excitationinduced stability (EIS) phenomenon in a harmonically excited bistable Duffing oscillator is studied in this paper. Criteria to predict system and excitation conditions necessary to maintain EIS are derived ...