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14 Citations
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5 June 2020

Nonlinear dissipative phenomena are common features of many dynamical systems and engineering applications, and their experimental characterization has always been a challenge among the research community. Within the wide range of nonlinear damping m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,055 Views
13 Pages

9 December 2021

Friction dampers are widely used in structural vibration suppression in various fields, such as aeronautics, astronautics, robotics, precision manufacturing, etc. Traditional friction dampers are mainly used in a passive way to optimize vibration sup...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,046 Views
12 Pages

19 March 2020

Friction-Induced Vibration and noisE (FIVE) is still a complex and nonlinear physical phenomenon which is characterized by the appearance of instabilities and self-sustained vibrations. This undesirable vibrational phenomenon is encountered in numero...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,039 Views
10 Pages

18 December 2022

This paper presents a state observer for an elastic joint with nonlinear friction via the information from an acceleration sensor. In order to avoid discontinuities, the nonlinear friction of the motor, which includes static, coulomb, and viscous ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,242 Views
21 Pages

6 February 2023

Shrouds have been widely used to reduce the level of excessive vibration of blisks. However, complicated nonlinear motion can be induced by the contact and friction between shrouds. Even worse, harmful localization of vibration can be encountered due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,683 Views
24 Pages

29 March 2022

Analogous to the Amonton–Coulomb relation, which states the linear dependency between the dynamic sliding friction and the normal reaction, the rolling friction moment is commonly accepted as proportional to the normal reaction in a concentrate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
613 Views
25 Pages

27 June 2025

In integrated permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSMs) coupled with mechanical devices such as ball screws and reducers, complex nonlinear friction characteristics often arise, leading to asymmetrical distortions such as position “flat-top&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,241 Views
17 Pages

5 May 2024

This paper evaluates the performance of the Rubin reduction methods, enhanced with static modal derivatives, for vibration analysis of geometrically nonlinear structures with friction contact. Static modal derivatives are computed numerically based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
928 Views
20 Pages

18 March 2025

Force-projecting bilateral control is an effective method for enhancing the positioning rigidity and stability of teleoperation systems equipped with compliant pneumatically driven followers. However, friction in the pneumatic actuation mechanism has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,847 Views
13 Pages

21 August 2023

The microstructure and properties of non-linear friction stir welded lap joints of the AA6061-T6 aluminum alloy were investigated, with a particular focus on the influence of corner curvature on the formability and mechanical properties of the joints...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,304 Views
17 Pages

7 November 2020

In this work, experimental and numerical investigation on the deployment of solar panels with tape spring (TS) hinges showing complex nonlinear hysteresis behavior caused by the snap-through buckling was conducted. Subsequently, it was verified by co...

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  • Open Access
1,709 Views
19 Pages

14 July 2023

At present, there are very few vibration test designs for compressor stator blades in damped blade test research, and there is a lack of consideration of the holding ring structure of the blade installation. In recent years, compressor designs have b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
832 Views
23 Pages

17 February 2025

The well-regarded feedforward control strategy known as Input Shaping is aimed at improving the dynamic response of flexible mechanical systems by reducing overshoot and residual vibration amplitude. Its validity has been confirmed by numerous studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,987 Views
17 Pages

A Study of Friction Nonlinearity and Compensation for Turntable Servo Systems

  • Minjie Yan,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Rana Md Sohel,
  • Runze Ji and
  • Hairong Ye

7 September 2024

In view of the worse dynamic performance and steady-state accuracy caused by nonlinear friction in turntable servo systems, challenges are posed in precise positioning tasks. However, most of the existing research ignores the effect of friction on sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,307 Views
21 Pages

To cut a clod of soil containing the roots of trees in nurseries, a semi-circular vibrating blade digging machine with diameters up to 1.2 m is increasingly used. The heart of the machine is the mechanical oscillator that produces an excitation torqu...

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  • Open Access
2,107 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2024

In this paper, a nonlinear vibration system with friction and linear and nonlinear springs is modeled and analyzed. The analysis examined how the combination of nonlinear variables affects the displacement of the system using the slowly varying ampli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,287 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, the nonlinear oscillations induced by friction in a ball-on-socket system are investigated. The nonlinear time response was obtained by solving the differential equations of the friction-noise model of the finite element ball with mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
760 Views
25 Pages

2 September 2025

Aerostatic conical bearings with micro-orifices (ACBMOs) can simultaneously withstand both radial and axial external loads and have high power density. Nevertheless, due to the larger surface-to-volume ratio and length-to-diameter ratio of micro-orif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,278 Views
15 Pages

3 May 2024

The stick–slip phenomenon is a jerking motion that can occur while two objects slide over each other with friction. There are several situations in which this phenomenon can be observed: between the slabs of the friction dampers used to mitigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,527 Views
24 Pages

This paper is designed to explore the asymptotic behaviour of a two dimensional visco-elastic plate equation with a logarithmic nonlinearity under the influence of nonlinear frictional damping. Assuming that relaxation function g satisfies g′(t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,717 Views
28 Pages

2 August 2023

The performance of gear systems is closely related to the meshing parameters and sliding friction. However, the time-varying characteristics of meshing parameters caused by transverse vibration are usually not regarded and the sliding friction has al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,458 Views
29 Pages

12 January 2024

Flexible shrouded blades are commonly adopted in the last stages of steam turbines where complicated dynamical behavior can be induced by dry friction force generated on contacting interfaces between adjacent shrouds and the geometric nonlinearity du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,247 Views
18 Pages

5 August 2020

This study numerically analyzes and investigates the effects of the bearing design parameters of a tilting pad journal bearing (TPJB) on the pad-pivot friction-induced nonlinear rotordynamic phenomena and bifurcations. The bearing parameters were set...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,629 Views
17 Pages

25 July 2024

Friction is the dominant factor restricting tracking accuracy and machining surface quality in mechanical systems such as machine tool feed-drive. Hence, friction modeling and compensation is an important method in accurate tracking control of CNC ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
539 Views
16 Pages

Broadband Response Enhancement of a Pitching Wave Energy Converter Using a Nonlinear Stiffness Mechanism Under Dry Friction Effects

  • Braulio Neira,
  • Fabián G. Pierart,
  • Claudio Villegas,
  • Cristian Cifuentes,
  • Vicente Barrientos,
  • Gonzalo Tampier,
  • Thomas Knobloch,
  • Burkhard Corves and
  • Mathias Hüsing

18 November 2025

This work presents an experimental and theoretical study of a pitching point-absorber wave energy converter (WEC) equipped with a nonlinear stiffness mechanism (NSM) based on a pre-compressed spring. The mechanism is designed to reduce the equivalent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,612 Views
32 Pages

16 August 2021

The effect of friction on nonlinear dynamics and vibration of total knee arthroplasties is yet to be investigated and understood. This research work aims at studying the influence of friction on nonlinear dynamics, friction-induced vibration, and dam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,053 Views
13 Pages

2 November 2019

The rolling mill with hydraulic system is widely used in the production of strip steel. For the problem of vertical vibration of the rolling mill, the effects of different equivalent damping coefficient, leakage coefficient, and proportional coeffici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
327 Views
32 Pages

Parameter Identification in Nonlinear Vibrating Systems Using Runge–Kutta Integration and Levenberg–Marquardt Regression

  • Şefika İpek Lök,
  • Ömer Ekim Genel,
  • Rosario La Regina,
  • Carmine Maria Pappalardo and
  • Domenico Guida

21 December 2025

Guided by principles of symmetry to achieve a proper balance among model consistency, accuracy, and complexity, this paper proposes a new approach for identifying the unknown parameters of nonlinear one-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems using nonl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,602 Views
32 Pages

10 May 2016

Recent bowed string sound synthesis has relied on physical modelling techniques; the achievable realism and flexibility of gestural control are appealing, and the heavier computational cost becomes less significant as technology improves. A bowed str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,611 Views
17 Pages

Multi-sensor Fusion Road Friction Coefficient Estimation During Steering with Lyapunov Method

  • Letian Gao,
  • Lu Xiong,
  • Xuefeng Lin,
  • Xin Xia,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yishi Lu and
  • Zhuoping Yu

4 September 2019

The road friction coefficient is a key parameter for autonomous vehicles and vehicle dynamic control. With the development of autonomous vehicles, increasingly, more environmental perception sensors are being installed on vehicles, which means that m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
666 Views
24 Pages

Achieving high-precision clamping force control is crucial for Electro-Mechanical Braking (EMB) systems but remains challenging due to significant nonlinear friction (e.g., static, Coulomb, and viscous friction) within the transmission mechanism. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,230 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2022

The bilinear hysteresis friction model and the Coulomb friction model are two typical macro slip models which are widely used by researchers in simulation analysis of rub-impact dynamics of shrouded blades. However, differences in the simulation resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2026

This paper addresses a recursive adaptive anti-lock braking (AB) control design problem for electro-hydraulic brake (EHB) systems subject to unknown tire–road-friction coefficients and disturbances. Compared with the relevant literature, the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,273 Views
24 Pages

18 January 2021

This study establishes a vertical–horizontal coupling vibration model of hot rolling mill rolls under multi-piecewise nonlinear constraints considering the piecewise nonlinear spring force and piecewise nonlinear friction force constraints of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,657 Views
13 Pages

22 July 2020

This article presents a method to solve the impact of a kinematic chain in terms of a non-linear contact force. The nonlinear contact force has different expressions for elastic compression, elasto-plastic compression, and elastic restitution. Lagran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,357 Views
17 Pages

12 February 2025

Friction pendulum bearings are widely used seismic isolation devices for bridges, with their behavior governed by friction during excitation. Sliding velocity and contact pressure are among the factors that substantially affect the friction coefficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,832 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2022

The nonlinear characteristics of the pneumatic servo system are the main factors limiting its control accuracy. A new mathematical model of the nonlinear system of the valve control cylinder is proposed in order to improve the control accuracy of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,084 Views
19 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Investigations on the Dynamic Response of Blades with Dual Friction Dampers

  • Jixin Man,
  • Beirao Xue,
  • Xiangde Bian,
  • Wengao Yan,
  • Da Qiao and
  • Wu Zeng

22 November 2023

Friction dampers are widely employed to reduce blade resonance vibration amplitude in turbomachinery. In this paper, a study was performed on the forced response of two blades with dual friction dampers. Numerical simulation and experimental testing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,121 Views
11 Pages

Influence of Dry Friction on the Dynamics of Cantilevered Pipes Conveying Fluid

  • Zilong Guo,
  • Qiao Ni,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Kun Zhou and
  • Xiangkai Meng

12 January 2022

A cantilevered pipe conveying fluid can lose stability via flutter when the flow velocity becomes sufficiently high. In this paper, a dry friction restraint is introduced for the first time, to evaluate the possibility of improving the stability of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
877 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2025

Taking the plant as a total uncertainty in a black box with measurable inputs and attainable outputs, this paper presents a constructive control design of agnostic nonlinear dynamic systems with discontinuous input (such as hard nonlinearities in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,610 Views
21 Pages

Modeling, Identification, and Compensation Control of Friction for a Novel Dual-Drive Hydrostatic Lead Screw Micro-Feed System

  • Yandong Liu,
  • Xianying Feng,
  • Peigang Li,
  • Yanfei Li,
  • Zhe Su,
  • Haiyang Liu,
  • Ziteng Lu and
  • Ming Yao

9 October 2022

This paper investigates the transmission performance of a novel dual-drive hydrostatic lead screw micro-nano feed system (DDHLS) that can obtain extremely low speed. Firstly, the oil film liquid friction of hydrostatic transmission is modelled, and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,969 Views
16 Pages

4 January 2024

The article is devoted to the analytical and numerical study of the pattern of propagation and attenuation, due to Coulomb friction, of shear waves in an infinite elastic thin plate with a circular orifice of radius r0 lying on a rough base. Consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,327 Views
6 Pages

26 December 2008

This paper proposes a nonlinear observer for Body Slip Angle (β) estimation, in which a nonlinear tire model is adopted for the observer design. A newly developed method to identify parameters of road surface friction coefficient (μ) is introduced in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,720 Views
14 Pages

20 August 2024

In rotating machinery, aerodynamic forces and oil film forces often lead to cross-coupling stiffness. This paper is aimed at studying the stick-slip whirling vibrations induced by the piecewise smooth rotor/stator frictions in a modified flexible rot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,050 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2023

The paper presents the experimental characterization, the formulation of a numerical model, and the evaluation, by means of non-linear analyses, of a new friction damper conceived for the seismic upgrade of existing building frames. The damper dissip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,695 Views
15 Pages

9 December 2021

The purpose of this work is to explore the nonlinear vibration of a rub-impact Jeffcott rotor. In the first stage, the motion is not affected by the friction force, but in the second stage, the motion is influenced by the normal force and the frictio...

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13 Citations
8,365 Views
12 Pages

Simultaneous Optimal Estimation of Roughness and Minor Loss Coefficients in a Pipeline

  • Ildeberto Santos-Ruiz,
  • Francisco-Ronay López-Estrada,
  • Vicenç Puig and
  • Guillermo Valencia-Palomo

This paper presents a proposal to estimate simultaneously, through nonlinear optimization, the roughness and head loss coefficients in a non-straight pipeline. With the proposed technique, the calculation of friction is optimized by minimizing the fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,958 Views
22 Pages

20 October 2022

Propeller-induced longitudinal vibration resonance in marine propulsion shafting systems causes great harm to the hull structure and is the primary source of shipboard noise. Integrating a friction damper with designed parameters into thrust bearings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,440 Views
21 Pages

Diagnosis of Friction on an Unbalanced Rotor by Phase-Shift Empirical Mode Decomposition Integration and Recurrence Plot

  • Ignacio Torres-Contreras,
  • Juan Carlos Jáuregui-Correa,
  • Salvador Echeverría-Villagómez,
  • Juan P. Benítez-Rangel and
  • Stephanie Camacho-Martínez

28 August 2021

The friction and imbalance of components in rotating machines are some of the most recurrent failures that significantly increase vibration levels, thus affecting the reliability of the devices, the shelf life of its elements, and the quality of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,726 Views
23 Pages

Advanced Motor Control for Improving the Trajectory Tracking Accuracy of a Low-Cost Mobile Robot

  • Luis Mérida-Calvo,
  • Andrés San-Millán Rodríguez,
  • Francisco Ramos and
  • Vicente Feliu-Batlle

23 December 2022

Accurate trajectory tracking is a paramount objective when a mobile robot must perform complicated tasks. In high-speed movements, time delays appear when reaching the desired position and orientation, as well as overshoots in the changes of orientat...

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