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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,441 Views
20 Pages

Vibrations often result in fatigue breakage in quadcopter flight operations. Reducing the vibration effect is the main important issue for quadcopter flight. Enhanced dynamic stiffness is required in the quadcopter control system for the vibration re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,348 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Torsional Stiffness of Reducers and Its Testing Method

  • Huiming Cheng,
  • Zhaoyao Shi,
  • Zhiyong Yu and
  • Guangxiang Zuo

15 August 2023

The torsional stiffness of the reducer is commonly assumed to be static and tested using the hysteresis curve method. However, practical engineering experience shows that the torsional stiffness is dynamic rather than static, and the hysteresis curve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,389 Views
14 Pages

24 November 2020

Industrial robots are regularly being employed for machining tasks. As a key machining parameter, dynamic stiffness has a significant influence on robotic machining performance. This paper examines two experimental approaches for obtaining the dynami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,977 Views
15 Pages

Research on Dynamic Response of Cold Rolling Mill with Dynamic Stiffness Compensation

  • Xingdou Jia,
  • Shen Wang,
  • Xiaoqiang Yan,
  • Lidong Wang and
  • Haipeng Wang

The vibration of the vertical system of a cold rolling mill is a major concern for factory production. In factory production, it is found that the thickness control system with dynamic stiffness compensation of the rolling mill has a significant impa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,378 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Dynamic Characteristics for Machine Tools Based on Dynamic Stiffness Sensitivity

  • Chunhui Li,
  • Zhiqiang Song,
  • Xianghua Huang,
  • Hui Zhao,
  • Xuchu Jiang and
  • Xinyong Mao

15 December 2021

Dynamic parameters are the intermediate information of the entirety of machine dynamics. The differences between components have not been combined with the structural vibration in the cutting process, so it is difficult to directly represent the dyna...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,311 Views
35 Pages

Dynamic Hydrogels with Viscoelasticity and Tunable Stiffness for the Regulation of Cell Behavior and Fate

  • Yuhang Zhang,
  • Zhuofan Wang,
  • Qingqing Sun,
  • Qian Li,
  • Shaohui Li and
  • Xiaomeng Li

21 July 2023

The extracellular matrix (ECM) of natural cells typically exhibits dynamic mechanical properties (viscoelasticity and dynamic stiffness). The viscoelasticity and dynamic stiffness of the ECM play a crucial role in biological processes, such as tissue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,601 Views
18 Pages

17 December 2024

To suppress large vibrations of the cable in cable-stayed bridges, it is common to install transverse dampers near the end of the cable. This paper focuses on the cable-damper system; based on the dynamic stiffness method, an accurate dynamic analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,606 Views
31 Pages

29 March 2025

To overcome the limitations imposed by the low flexible angle of conventional robots, an active–passive variable stiffness elastic actuator (APVSA) is investigated and a nonlinear dynamic model for the APVSA is established, considering the fact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,695 Views
20 Pages

13 July 2023

This paper presents an efficient method for obtaining the dynamic mesh stiffness and dynamic response of a helical gear pair. Unlike the traditional dynamic model that utilizes a time-dependent sequence, the mesh stiffness using the presented method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,451 Views
19 Pages

Temperature and Humidity Effects on the Dynamic Stiffness of a Polyester Mooring Rope

  • Wenhua Li,
  • Xiongyan Liu,
  • Gen Li,
  • Shanying Lin,
  • Hangyu Li and
  • Yangyuan Ge

In this paper, the nonlinear stiffness of a polyester rope under dynamic loads at different temperatures was experimentally investigated. The effects and evolution of the average load, load period and load amplitude on dynamic stiffness were studied....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,207 Views
34 Pages

21 August 2020

The purpose of this paper is investigating the characteristics of dynamic contact and dynamic stiffness of the single nut ball screw pair (SNBSP). Then a new sensorless method is proposed to extract the SNBSP dynamic contact stiffness of a mass produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,403 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Stiffness Effect of Mechanical Components on Gear Mesh Misalignment

  • Jin-Gyun Kim,
  • Ga Ae Gang,
  • Seung-Je Cho,
  • Geun Ho Lee and
  • Young-Jun Park

23 May 2018

In this work, we propose a method that considers the dynamic elastic stiffness of mechanical components in a quasi-static condition, and we investigate this parameter’s effect on gear mesh misalignment. Unlike conventional approaches, which con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,693 Views
25 Pages

24 February 2022

This paper focuses on analyzing the dynamic response of an innovated quasi-zero stiffness pneumatic vibration isolator (QZSPVI) using two mechanisms, including wedge and semicircle cam. Different from other studies relating quasi-zero stiffness isola...

  • Article
  • Open Access
940 Views
16 Pages

10 April 2025

High-Static–Low-Dynamic Stiffness (HSLDS) isolators have been extensively studied, primarily considering continuous stiffness and viscous damping, often overlooking stiffness discontinuities and dry friction forces. This paper aims to provide a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,362 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2022

Compounds with lower dynamic stiffness are a better solution from the tyre/road noise point of view. The article presents the constructed test stand for the evaluation of dynamic stiffness both in in situ and in laboratory conditions. As a result of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,299 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Aging Conditions on the Dynamic Stiffness of EPDM and EVA Rail Pads

  • Isaac Rivas,
  • Jose A. Sainz-Aja,
  • Diego Ferreño,
  • Isidro Carrascal,
  • Jose Casado and
  • Soraya Diego

16 April 2025

The railway sector plays a crucial role in sustainable transportation by reducing greenhouse gas emissions while supporting an increasing volume of freight and passenger transport. Rail pads, essential components in railway infrastructure, mitigate v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,483 Views
14 Pages

23 April 2020

Stiffness is an important mechanical characteristic of asphalt mixtures used in the wearing course. It is one of the determining factors in the generation of tyre/road noise. The dynamic stiffness of the upper layer of the road surface depends on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,120 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2023

This work addresses the dynamic modeling of a negative stiffness absorber consisting of an assembly of curved beams. Design rules are derived from the orders of magnitude of stiffness and elastic energy stored by the negative stiffness elements. Alth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,194 Views
25 Pages

22 August 2023

The dynamic characteristics of sandwich panels with a hierarchical hexagonal honeycomb (SP-HHHs) show significant improvements due to their distinct hierarchy configurations. However, this also increases the complexity of structural analysis. To addr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,843 Views
22 Pages

8 October 2023

This study focuses on the stiffness and dynamic characteristic rules of a bridge approach zone in a high-speed railway (HSR). Indoor and in situ tests were performed to explore the stiffness and dynamic characteristics of the roadbed filling. Based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,443 Views
22 Pages

3 December 2024

This study investigates the dynamic stiffness and damping characteristics of three polyurethane materials—PM, PS, and PST—using a comprehensive vibroacoustic testing approach. The aim is to examine material parameters such as dynamic stif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,996 Views
21 Pages

Development of the Dynamic Stiffness Method for the Out-of-Plane Natural Vibration of an Orthotropic Plate

  • Manish Chauhan,
  • Pawan Mishra,
  • Sarvagya Dwivedi,
  • Minvydas Ragulskis,
  • Rafał Burdzik and
  • Vinayak Ranjan

5 June 2022

In this present paper, the dynamic stiffness method (DSM) was formulated to investigate the out-of-plane natural vibration of a thin orthotropic plate using the classical plate theory (CPT). Hamilton’s principle was implemented to derive the go...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,155 Views
20 Pages

Dynamic Posture Programming for Robotic Milling Based on Cutting Force Directional Stiffness Performance

  • Yuhang Gao,
  • Tianyang Qiu,
  • Ci Song,
  • Senjie Ma,
  • Zhibing Liu,
  • Zhiqiang Liang and
  • Xibin Wang

6 September 2025

Robotic milling offers significant advantages for machining large aerospace components due to its low cost and high flexibility. However, compared to computerized numerical control (CNC) machine tools, robot systems exhibit lower stiffness, leading t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,388 Views
19 Pages

27 February 2023

The study of position control for variable stiffness actuators is important for improving their energy efficiency and robustness. In this paper, for the previously proposed nonlinear variable stiffness actuator, firstly, a dynamic model of the variab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,571 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Modeling and Experiment Research on Twin Ball Screw Feed System Considering the Joint Stiffness

  • Meng Duan,
  • Hong Lu,
  • Xinbao Zhang,
  • Yongquan Zhang,
  • Zhangjie Li and
  • Qi Liu

1 December 2018

It is of great significance to study the dynamic characteristics of twin ball screw (TBS) feed system to improve the precision of gantry-type dual-driven computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools. In this paper, an equivalent dynamic model of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,245 Views
14 Pages

Mesh Stiffness and Nonlinear Dynamic Model for a Gear Drive with Revolute Pair Clearance

  • Juan Huang,
  • Bo Hu,
  • Songlin Sun,
  • Mingtao Xiao,
  • Caiwang Peng and
  • Hongbing Wang

10 January 2023

Bearings and other revolute pairs in gear drives will form clearances due to wear after working for a long time, which will aggravate the vibration and noise of the gear. Therefore, taking the gear drives with revolute pair clearance as the research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,019 Views
12 Pages

Use of Dynamic FEA for Design Modification and Energy Analysis of a Variable Stiffness Prosthetic Foot

  • Heimir Tryggvason,
  • Felix Starker,
  • Christophe Lecomte and
  • Fjola Jonsdottir

16 January 2020

Different tasks and conditions in gait call for different stiffness of prosthetic foot devices. The following work presents a case study on design modifications of a prosthetic foot, aimed at variable stiffness of the device. The objective is a proof...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,619 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2020

The accurate modeling of the complex dynamic stiffness of inflated rubber diaphragms in pneumatic springs is necessary for an efficient design of vibration isolation tables for precision instruments, such as optical devices and nano-scale equipment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,459 Views
14 Pages

14 March 2019

High-rise residential buildings are constructed in countries with high population density in response to the need to utilize small development areas. As many high-rise buildings are being constructed, issues of floor impact sound tend to occur in bui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,936 Views
10 Pages

An Alternative Approach to Determine the Dynamic Stiffness of Resilient Materials under Low Prestatic Load

  • Jesús Carbajo,
  • Pedro Poveda,
  • Enrique Segovia,
  • Andrés Prieto,
  • Laura Río-Martín,
  • José Daniel Pastor and
  • Jaime Ramis

6 June 2024

Dynamic stiffness is a parameter of great importance for the assessment of the sound insulation properties of resilient materials commonly used under floating floors in dwellings. This work proposes a simplified approach that relies on an electro-mec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,056 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2023

The positioning accuracy and machining performance of the five-axis machine tool are significantly impacted by the dynamic characteristics of the rotary system of the two-axis rotary table machine. In this study, first, the stiffness of the joint bea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,710 Views
34 Pages

Study on the Dynamic Characteristics of Low-Frequency High-Stiffness Viscoelastic Damping Structures

  • Zhangda Zhao,
  • Wenjun Meng,
  • Bijuan Yan,
  • Huijun Liang,
  • Yihang Geng and
  • Zhengyu Sun

25 March 2025

Viscoelastic suspension systems serve as components essential for enhancing ride comfort and structural reliability in tracked bulldozers. However, traditional suspension-damping structures often exhibit high-stiffness and reduced-damping characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,825 Views
23 Pages

Time-Varying Meshing Stiffness and Dynamic Parameter Model of Spiral Bevel Gears with Different Surface Roughness

  • Zhi-Jie Cai,
  • Xi-Qing Zheng,
  • Hui-Qing Lan,
  • Liu-Na Wang,
  • Si-Wei Yang and
  • Rui Sheng

14 February 2024

In order to explore the time-varying mesh stiffness and dynamic parameters of bevel gears with different surface roughness, the fractal dimension and characteristic scale coefficient are calculated to determine the fractal dimension of tooth surfaces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,196 Views
20 Pages

Modeling a Milling Dynamometer as a 3DOF Dynamic System by Stiffness Identification

  • Munyaradzi Innocent Mupona,
  • Ioan Călin Roşca and
  • Sorin Vlase

7 June 2024

The experimental determination of cutting forces during milling is an important aspect followed in the manufacturing process and involves the use of specialized devices known as dynamometers. These can be made in the laboratory, depending on the type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,673 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2024

There is a complex dynamic interaction between the aero-engine bearing and the rotor, and the resulting time-varying system parameters have an impact on the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the rolling bearing-flexible rotor system. In this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,545 Views
9 Pages

Dynamic Changes in Liver Stiffness in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Undergoing Antiviral Therapy

  • Alin Lazar,
  • Ioan Sporea,
  • Alexandru Popa,
  • Raluca Lupusoru,
  • Diana Gherhardt,
  • Ruxandra Mare,
  • Alexandru Apostu,
  • Madalina Hnatiuc and
  • Roxana Șirli

31 October 2022

This is a retrospective single-center study that included 87 subjects. All subjects had chronic hepatitis B or HBV cirrhosis and underwent nucleos(t)ide analogs (NUC) treatment for more than one year. The study aimed to evaluate the dynamic changes i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,980 Views
16 Pages

Modeling and Characterization of Multilayer Piezoelectric Stacks via Dynamic Stiffness Method

  • Wenxiang Ding,
  • Zhaofeng Liang,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Hongmei Zhong,
  • Dan Chen,
  • Maxime Bavencoffe and
  • Marc Lethiecq

26 December 2024

Multilayer piezoelectric stacks, which are multiple layers of piezoelectric materials placed on top of each other, are widely used to achieve precise linear movement and high-force generation. In this paper, a dynamic stiffness (DS) method for the dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,673 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2024

This work presents accurate values for the dynamic stiffness matrix coefficients of Levinson beams under axial loading embedded in a Winkler–Pasternak elastic foundation. Levinson’s theory accounts for greater shear deformation than the E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,303 Views
12 Pages

6 June 2025

Stiffness parameters are very important and effective in the constitutive models used in finite element analysis. It is not easy or common to obtain these parameters in the laboratory. However, even if the modulus is determined in the small and mediu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,500 Views
7 Pages

24 January 2024

The dynamic characteristics of flexible couplings with a rubber–metal element type SEGME have been studied. The hardness of the rubber element of the SEGME 25 coupling is 53 Shore A, and that the SEGME 63 coupling is 73 Shore A, respectively. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,937 Views
25 Pages

Mesh Stiffness and Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of Modified Straight Bevel Gears

  • Ding Zhang,
  • Ze-Hua Hu,
  • Wen-Tao Liu,
  • Jin-Yuan Tang,
  • Zhou Sun and
  • Zhao-Yang Tian

19 December 2024

Gear modification, which involves the removal of material from the theoretical surface to improve the contact characteristics of the gear face, is widely applied in gear vibration reduction and noise optimization design. This paper establishes a dyna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,456 Views
22 Pages

A Refined Dynamic Model for the Planetary Gear Set Considering the Time-Varying Nonlinear Support Stiffness of Ball Bearing

  • Xiaodong Yang,
  • Chaodong Zhang,
  • Wennian Yu,
  • Wenbin Huang,
  • Zhiliang Xu and
  • Chunhui Nie

1 February 2023

Dynamics models of planetary gear sets (PGSs) are usually established to predict their dynamic behavior and load-sharing characteristics. The accurate modeling of bearing support stiffness is essential to study their dynamics. However, in most of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,266 Views
14 Pages

7 November 2024

In the literature on rotating machinery, many articles discuss the analysis of various rotor and bearing defects, including both sliding and rolling bearings. Defects in the rotor supporting system are investigated much less frequently. In rotor-bear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,875 Views
29 Pages

Analysis of Time-Varying Mesh Stiffness and Dynamic Response of Gear Transmission System with Pitting and Cracking Coupling Faults

  • Yiyi Kong,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Ning Dong,
  • Jun Shang,
  • Pengfei Yu,
  • Jun Li,
  • Manhua Yu and
  • Lan Chen

21 April 2023

The gear transmission system is an important part of the mechanical system, so it is essential to judge its running state accurately. To solve the difficult problem of identifying the components of coupling faults, this paper derives the calculation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,126 Views
15 Pages

Tunable High-Static-Low-Dynamic Stiffness Isolator under Harmonic and Seismic Loads

  • Giovanni Iarriccio,
  • Antonio Zippo,
  • Fatemeh Eskandary-Malayery,
  • Sinniah Ilanko,
  • Yusuke Mochida,
  • Brian Mace and
  • Francesco Pellicano

25 August 2024

High-Static-Low-Dynamic Stiffness (HSLDS) mechanisms exploit nonlinear kinematics to improve the effectiveness of isolators, preserving controlled static deflections while maintaining low natural frequencies. Although extensively studied under harmon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,915 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2022

Multi-degree-of-freedom isolator with low stiffness is a fair prospect in engineering application. In this paper, a novel 6-DOF QZS vibration isolation platform based on leaf spring structure is presented. Its bearing capacity is provided through fou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
815 Views
26 Pages

The Dynamic Stiffness Matrix (DSM) of a structure is a frequency-dependent stiffness matrix relating the actions (forces and moments) and displacements (translations and rotations) when the structure vibrates at a given frequency. The DSM may be used...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
561 Views
9 Pages

Technologies for Minimizing Track Degradation and Additional Dynamic Effects at Permanent Way-Railway Bridge Stiffness Transitions

  • Szabolcs Fischer,
  • Zoltán Major,
  • Bence Hermán,
  • Bálint Molnár,
  • András Pollák and
  • Szabolcs Kocsis Szürke

10 November 2025

Railway tracks at bridge approaches experience significant vertical stiffness transitions, leading to adverse effects such as settlement and increased dynamic loads, accelerating track degradation. This study explores various structural solutions, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,953 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2020

The time-varying mesh stiffness (TVMS) is the crucial parameter of the dynamic model of the gear system. Accurate calculation of TVMS is essential for effective fault diagnosis of the gear system. A mesh stiffness improved method considering both the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,264 Views
21 Pages

Regarding the dynamic magnification effect of structure stiffness on the gust analysis of civil aircraft, the following three methods are presented: rigid modes analysis, secondary processing based on elastic modes, and analysis with enlarged stiffne...

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