Journal of Vibration and Acoustics: Recent submissions
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Active Stiffeners for Vibration Control of a Circular Plate Structure: Analytical and Experimental Investigations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Space-based adaptive optic systems have gained considerable attention within the past couple of decades. Achieving the increasingly stringent performance requirements for these systems is greatly ... -
Vibration Analysis of One-Dimensional Structures with Discontinuities Using the Acoustical Wave Propagator Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A numerical technique, named the acoustical wave propagator technique, is introduced to describe the dynamic characteristics of one-dimensional structures with discontinuities. A scheme combining ... -
System Identification of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems Using Embedded Sensitivity Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A novel method of experimental sensitivity analysis for nonlinear system identification of mechanical systems is examined here. It has been shown previously that embedded sensitivity functions, ... -
Free and Forced Wave Vibration Analysis of Axially Loaded Materially Coupled Composite Timoshenko Beam Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this paper, wave vibration analysis of axially loaded bending-torsion coupled composite beam structures is presented. It includes the effects of axial force, shear deformation, and rotary ... -
Suppression of Parametric Resonance in Cantilever Beam With a Pendulum (Effect of Static Friction at the Supporting Point of the Pendulum)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The dynamic response of a parametrically excited cantilever beam with a pendulum is theoretically and experimentally presented. The equation of motion and the associated boundary conditions are ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)With this issue, the Journal welcomes three new associate editors: Sotirios Natsiavas, Karl Grosh, and Buddy Clark. All three are well known to the vibration and acoustics community, and I ... -
Foreword
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)Leading this issue are three articles assembled by Associate Editor Karl Grosh addressing MEMs modeling in dynamics and acoustics. I am indebted to Karl for his efforts to highlight an emerging ... -
Vibration of Rectangular Orthotropic Elliptic Plates of Quadratically Varying Thickness Resting on Elastic Foundation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The title problem is analyzed when nodal lines are concentric ellipses by using boundary characteristic orthonormal polynomials in Rayleigh-Ritz method for Winkler foundation where quadratically ... -
Experimental and Analytical Investigations of the Dynamic Response of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)Dynamic response of single lap joints, subjected to a harmonic peeling load is studied theoretically and experimentally. In the theoretical part, dynamic response of a single lap joint clamped ... -
Identifying Coulomb and Viscous Friction in Forced Dual-Damped Oscillators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This paper presents a method for estimating Coulomb and viscous friction coefficients from responses of a harmonically excited dual-damped oscillator with linear stiffness. The identification method ... -
Application of a Nonlinear Modal Instability Approach to Brake Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)A method, called the Complex NonLinear Modal Analysis (CNLMA), is proposed for the calculation of the periodic solutions of nonlinear mechanical systems with continued nonlinearities. The equivalent ... -
Nonlinear Interaction of an Elastic Pulse With a Frictional Contact Interface Between Two Anisotropic Dissimilar Media
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The paper analyses the interaction of an elastic pulse of arbitrary form with a frictional contact interface between two anisotropic solids which are pressed together and at the same time ... -
An Experimental Study of Particle Damping for Beams and Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This paper describes an experimental investigation of a particle damping method for a beam and a plate. Tungsten carbide particles are embedded within longitudinal (and latitudinal) holes drilled ... -
Substructure Analysis of a Flexible System Contact-Impact Event
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)In this paper, the application of the substructure methodology to contact-impact analysis of flexible multibody systems is validated. Various impact model parameters that affect the model’s accuracy ... -
Dynamics of Flexible Structures With Nonlinear Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The focus of the present study is to use a technique based on Fourier approximation and Galerkin error minimization to determine periodic solutions of nonlinear jointed flexible structures, and ... -
Design and Simulation of Robust and Adaptive Controls for a Nonlinear String System1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)In this paper, vibration control of a nonlinear string system is considered. The system consists of a nonlinear string, two boundary supporting mechanisms, and a moving transporter at the base. ... -
Control of Nonlinear Electro/Elastic Beam and Plate Systems (Finite Element Formulation and Analysis)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)Adaptive structures involving large imposed deformation often go beyond the boundary of linear theory and they should be treated as “nonlinear” structures. A generic nonlinear finite element ... -
Vibration Confinement via Optimal Eigenvector Assignment and Piezoelectric Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The underlying principle for vibration confinement is to alter the structural vibration modes so that the corresponding modal components have much smaller amplitude in concerned area than in the ... -
Distributed Modal Voltages of Nonlinear Paraboloidal Shells With Distributed Neurons
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)Effective health monitoring and distributed control of advanced structures depends on accurate measurements of dynamic responses of elastic structures. Conventional sensors used for structural ... -
Covariance Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems via Exact Stationary Probability Density Function
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This paper presents a method for designing covariance type controls of nonlinear stochastic systems. The method consists of two steps. The first step is to find a class of nonlinear feedback ...