2025 December - 26 articles
Physics-based simulations are now widely employed in mechanical engineering. Flexible Multibody dynamic Simulations (FMBSs) have proven to be effective in representing the behavior of complex structures with local damping and stiffness nonlinearities...
The steering linkage represents a key subsystem of any automobile, playing a direct role in vehicle handling, driving safety, and overall comfort. Within this mechanism, the tie rod and tie rod end are crucial for transmitting steering forces from th...
This paper reviews, analyses, and suggests practical mitigation techniques at source for reducing vibration-induced annoyance to occupants in building structures that are built on top of significant railway infrastructure. The dynamic characteristics...
Vibration band gap structures are advanced materials for vibration wave mitigation from metamaterials to phononic crystals from simple geometrical manipulations. Here, we present geometrical structures, made from platonic solids, that are capable of...
The environmental adaptability of outdoor power connectors exerts a crucial influence on the reliability of electrical systems. In this work, the current-carrying performance degradation of commercial power connectors under forced mechanical vibratio...
Elevated stations are essential auxiliary structures within the high-speed rail (HSR) network. The newly constructed integrated elevated station for bridge building possesses a distinctive construction and intricate force transmission pathways, compl...
Due to its effective noise reduction, the semi-enclosed noise barrier is increasingly being applied in the construction of high-speed railways. However, there is still a lack of systematic research on the wind load distribution characteristics under...
This paper examines the generic case of nonlinear mechanical oscillation under the influence of Hertzian-type restoring forces, a model relevant to phenomena involving elastic contact. The study addresses the complexity of strongly nonlinear systems...
Ground-borne vibrations caused by railway traffic represent a significant environmental concern, particularly in densely populated or vibration-sensitive urban areas. These phenomena can lead to discomfort and annoyance among residents, interfere wit...
The natural frequencies and damping characterisation of a new aerospace grade composite material were investigated using a modified impulse method combined with the half power bandwidth method, which is applicable to the structures with a low damping...
In this work, a time–frequency analysis of two railway bridges included in the InBridge4EU project database is presented. The study focuses on the identification of modal parameters from free responses after train passages and their comparison...
This paper proposes a sequential bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BGRU) model to predict construction-induced ground vibrations. The ground vibration time histories for twelve real construction projects in Toronto, Canada, are collected and used t...
The high cost of traditional structural health monitoring systems limits their application to only a few major bridges, leaving most structures unmonitored between manual inspections. To address this issue, this study proposes a UAV mobile detection...
Vibration-based predictive maintenance is an essential element of reliability engineering for modern automotive powertrains including internal combustion engines, hybrids, and battery-electric platforms. This review synthesizes advances in sensing, s...
One of the challenges in inertia sensor applications is the need for a class of devices that operate at one of the ring resonant frequencies to achieve large amplitudes of vibration. However, large amplitudes tend to produce undesirable nonlinear eff...
This paper presents a study on the nonlinear vibrations in the impact-echo (IE) method for void flaw detection of solid structures. Linear theory has historically served as the foundational framework for non-destructive methods, including the IE meth...
Robots are used more and more in manufacturing, especially in tasks like robotic machining, where understanding their vibration behavior is very important. However, robot vibrations vary with posture, and evaluating all representative postures requir...
A contactless passive magnetoelastic sensing setup, recently proposed for detecting pest/substance accumulation in confined spaces (labs, museum reserves), is optimized for enhanced low-frequency performance. The setup uses a short flexible polymer s...
This systematic review examined the health risk assessment methods of studies of whole-body vibration exposure from occupational vehicles or machines utilizing the International Standard ISO 2631-1 (1997) and/or the European Machine Directive 2002/44...
The application of dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs) is a countermeasure to suppress vibrations induced by railway traffic. A key advantage of the DVA application is that it does not require any changes to the path of vibration propagation or the re...
An accelerometer mounting technique has large implications on the frequency range and accuracy of the measurement, with stiffness and the mass relative to the monitored structure as the primary concerns. The International Organization for Standardiza...
Vibration loads during deep drilling are one of the main causes of reduced service life of drilling tools and emergency failure of downhole motors. This work investigates the adaptive operation of an original elastic element based on an open cylindri...
This study proposes a novel framework to enhance inner race fault features in servo motor bearings by acquiring rotary encoder-derived instantaneous angular speed (IAS) signals, which are obtained from a servo motor encoder without requiring addition...
This research aims to actively suppress vibrations at the end-effector of a flexible manipulator. When configured in a locked state, the system behaves as a two-link manipulator subjected to disturbances on the first link. To analyze its behavior, Fi...
For the first time, the influence of random parametric errors (RPEs) on the nonlinear dynamic behaviors of a laminated composite cantilever beam (LCCB) is studied. A nonlinear dynamic model for the LCCB is first established based on Hamilton’s...
This paper presents a systematic review of vibration sensors and their application in industrial-monitoring systems, aiming to provide a comprehensive reference for both academic research and practical applications in this field. Through the classifi...
