The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of four departments within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. The undergraduate educational experience emphasizes the application of a wide spectrum of engineering fundamentals. Care has been taken to ensure a balanced integration of theory, design and laboratory...

This paper describes a type of isolator which is based on Solid And Liquid Mixture (SALiM) for vibration isolation and shock absorbing. The nonlinear force-displacement relation of the isolator is established. Using the precise integration method, the primary responses in time domain are evaluated to study the isolator’s property. Index terms — Solid and Liquid Mixture, Vibration Isolation, Vib...

progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...

In a single-degree-of-freedom weakly nonlinear oscillator subjected to periodic external excitation, a small-amplitude excitation may produce a relatively large-amplitude response under primary resonance conditions. Jump and hysteresis phenomena that result from saddle-node bifurcations may occur in the steady-state response of the forced nonlinear oscillator. A simple mass-spring-damper vibrat...