Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics: Recent submissions
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Adaptive LQR Control Design and Friction Compensation for Flexible High Speed Rack Feeders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Rack feeders for the automated operation of high bay rackings are of high practical importance. They are characterized by a horizontally movable carriage supporting a tall and flexible vertical beam structure, on which a ... -
Load and Response Identification for a Nonlinear Flexible Structure Subject to Harmonic Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Experimental monitoring of dynamic response is generally limited to few locations in the system. However, the analysis of structural performance and design of control systems would benefit from a complete knowledge of the ... -
Parametric Flexible Multibody Model for Material Removal During Turning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This work presents a flexible multibody system model for the inside turning of thinwalled cylinders. The model accounts for the varying input and output behavior of the workpiece due to workpiece rotation and tool feed, ... -
Infinite Dimensional Pole Optimization Control Design for Flexible Structures Using the Transfer Matrix Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper presents an approach to control design for flexible structures based on the transfer matrix method (TMM). The approach optimizes the closedloop pole locations while working directly on the infinitedimensional ... -
A Matrix Free Newton–Krylov Parallel Implicit Implementation of the Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper sets out to demonstrate three things: (i) implicit integration with absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) is effective in handling very stiff systems when an accurate computation of the sensitivity matrix ... -
A Flexible Multibody Model of a Safety Robot Arm for Experimental Validation and Analysis of Design Parameters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Service robots must comply with very demanding safety requirements in order to guarantee that a human can be assisted without any risk of injury. This paper presents a detailed multibody model of the interaction between a ... -
Stability Analysis of Multibody Systems With Long Flexible Bodies Using the Moving Modes Method and Its Application to Railroad Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In order to model a long flexible body subjected to a moving load within multibody systems, the flexibility can be considered by using a special floating frame of reference approach. In this approach the body deformations ... -
Sliding and Nonsliding Joint Constraints of B Spline Plate Elements for Integration With Flexible Multibody Dynamics Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In this investigation, a numerical procedure for modeling sliding and nonsliding joint constraints for the Bspline thin plate element is developed for the large deformation analysis of multibody systems. A concept of ... -
Flexible Multibody Dynamics—Essential for Accurate Modeling in Multibody System Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Multibody system dynamics enables the rapid and economical exploration of machine dynamic behaviors. Multibody dynamics can reduce or even eliminate the need for physical prototyping; accelerate the product development ... -
Modal Selection Through Effective Interface Mass With Application to Flexible Multibody Cranktrain Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The development of a multibody model of a motorbike Ltwin engine cranktrain is presented in this work. The need for an accurate evaluation of the loads acting on the main engine components at high rotational speed makes ... -
Application of Topological Sensitivity Toward Soft Tissue Characterization From Vibroacoustography Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This study concerns the development and preliminary experimental verification of a topological sensitivity–based platform for the material characterization of tissue anomalies exposed by vibroacoustographytype imaging ... -
Consensus Analysis and Formation Control of Second Order Multiagent Systems Via Nonlinear Protocol
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper mainly investigates consensus and formation control of secondorder multiagent system with undirected communication graph. A nonlinear protocol is proposed as an extension of general linear protocols that have ... -
Dynamic Behavior of a Large Ring of Coupled Self Excited Oscillators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Interconnected, selfexcited oscillators are often found in nature and in engineered devices. In this work, a ring of van der Pol oscillators, each of which is connected to its immediate neighbors, is considered. The focus ... -
Nonlinear Pulse Equipartition in Weakly Coupled Ordered Granular Chains With No Precompression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)We report on the strongly nonlinear dynamics of an array of weakly coupled, noncompressed, parallel granular chains subject to a local initial impulse. The motion of the granules in each chain is constrained to be in one ... -
Fractional Hyperchaotic Telecommunication Systems: A New Paradigm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The dynamics of hyperchaotic and fractionalorder systems have increasing attracted attention in recent years. In this paper, we mix two complex dynamics to construct a new telecommunication system. Using a hyperchaotic ... -
Terrain Adaptive Auxiliary Track Tensioning System for Tracked Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)It is known that tension in the track of a tracked vehicle has a large effect on its driving properties. Simple track tensioning solutions, like track adjusting link assembly, use a oneroad wheel motion to govern the motion ... -
A Practical Approach to Fractional Stochastic Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this note we present some results on stochastic dynamics with respect to a fractional Brownian motion from a L2approximation approach. A new and simple definition of fractional stochastic integral is introduced and a ... -
Spectral Distribution of Derailment Coefficient in Non Linear Model of Railway Vehicle–Track System With Random Track Irregularities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Improving the running safety and reducing the risk of derailments are the key objectives in the assessment of the running characteristics of railway vehicles. The present study of the safety against derailment is focused ... -
Characterization of Flow Magnetic Field Interactions in Magneto Hydrodynamic Turbulence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)We examine the complex nonlinear flowmagnetic field dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Using direct numerical simulations (DNS), we investigate the dynamical interactions subject to the influence of a uniform ... -
Bivariate Module Phase Synchronization of a Fractional Order Lorenz System in Different Dimensions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Based on the classic Lorenz system, this paper studies the problem of bivariate modulephase synchronizations in a fractionalorder Lorenz system, bivariate modulephase synchronizations in a fractionalorder spatiotemporal ...