Journal of Vibration and Acoustics: Recent submissions
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Identification of Properties of Nonlinear Joints Using Dynamic Test Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This paper presents a general purpose technique for identifying (extracting) the dynamic properties of nonlinear joints using dynamic test data. No theoretical model is required, only experimental ... -
Fatigue Life Prediction of Nonlinear Plates Under Random Excitations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)An efficient method is presented for estimating the high cycle fatigue life of nonlinear structures under random excitations. The procedure is based on an application of the method of equivalent ... -
A Vibrational Mode Analysis of Free Finite-Length Thick Cylinders Using the Finite Element Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)Based on their three-dimensional mode shapes, the vibrational modes of free finite length thick cylinders can be classified into 6 categories, consisting of pure radial, radial motion with radial ... -
A Detailed Mechanical Model of a Double Pumper Fluid Mount
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)Conventional passive elastomenc mounts have been used as noise and vibration isolators in the automotive and aircraft industries for many years. For even better noise and vibration isolation, ... -
Cumulant Based Modal Parameter Extraction of Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This paper describes a nonlinear deterministic estimator based on cumulants for the extraction of modal parameters. The signal analysed is composed of multiple exponentially damped real sinusoids ... -
A Contribution to the Moving Mass Problem
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Generalized Random Decrement Method for Analysis of Vibration Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)The Random Decrement method used in system identification for analysis of random vibration data is considered from a rigorous mathematical perspective. It is shown that the Random Decrement ... -
Component Mode Synthesis for Dynamic Analysis of Flexible Manipulator Arms With Distributed Viscoelastic Damping
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Eigenmode Approach for a Periodic Composite Transducer Subject to Fluid Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)A hybrid finite element eigenmode—Floquet mode representation is formulated and numerically implemented to study the performance of composite transducers subject to fluid loading. The periodic ... -
Discussion: “Free Vibrations of Thick Hollow Circular Cylinders From Three-Dimensional Analysis” (So, J., and Lessia, A. W., 1997, ASME J. Vibr. Acoust., 119, pp. 89–95)
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Identification of a Thin Plate With Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors
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A Higher Order Finite Element Model for the Vibration Analysis of Laminated Beams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)A higher order displacement model based on a cubic axial strain, cubic transverse shear strain and quadratic transverse normal strain across the thickness of the beam, to model exactly the ... -
A Parametric Study of the Modified Model Reference Adaptive Control Scheme
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)The validity of the claim by many studies that the damping and stiffness forces can be ignored when designing a model reference adaptive controller, is examined. For a simple plant, the ... -
Finite Element Analysis of the Lateral Vibration of Thin Annular and Circular Plates With Variable Thickness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)The method of annular finite elements with variable thickness is applied for analyzing the lateral vibration of thin annular and circular plates. The material of the plates may be of isotropic ... -
Stability of Rotating Pretwisted, Tapered Beams With Randomly Varying Speeds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This paper presents a study of stability of coupled bending-bending vibration of pretwisted, tapered beams rotating at randomly varying speeds. The rotating speed is characterized as a wide-band, ... -
State Space Modeling of an Acoustic Duct With an End-Mounted Speaker
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This paper develops a state space model of the dynamics of an acoustic duct with end-mounted speakers. The initial model formulation includes the forcing term as part of the boundary conditions. ... -
Application of Wavelets in Modeling Stochastic Dynamic Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This paper presents a wavelet based model for stochastic dynamic systems. In this model, the state variables and their variations are approximated using truncated linear sums of orthogonal ... -
Vibration of High-Speed Spur Gear Webs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)High cycle fatigue loading of gear webs due to in-plane stresses, caused by forced excitation resulting from centrifugal loading and dynamic tooth loads, has been known to cause radial fatigue ... -
Response Variance Reduction of a Nonlinear Mechanical System via Sliding Mode Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)An analysis of a target tracking mechanical system subject to random base excitations is presented in this paper. Sliding mode controls are proposed to minimize the random error of target ... -
Free Vibration and Stability Analysis of Internally Damped Rotating Shafts With General Boundary Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)Vibration analysis of an internally damped rotating shaft, modeled using Timoshenko beam theory, with general boundary conditions is performed analytically. The equations of motion including the ...