Parallels between the dynamic response of flexible bridges under the action of wind and under the forces induced by crowds allow each field to inform the other. Wind-induced behaviour has been traditionally classified into categories such as flutter, galloping, vortex-induced vibration and buffeting. However, computational advances such as the vortex particle method have led to a more general p...

A complete vehicle-ballasted track-bridge coupling dynamic model is established. A program to analyze dynamic characteristics is also invented, which is the first time to systematically analyze the dynamic characteristics of vehicles, tracks and bridges when using mats under ballast on the rigid foundation of bridge, in China. The results show that:(1) The mats under ballast are able to reduce ...

Rotordynamic instability is present in most or all automotive turbochargers. High subsynchronous amplitudes can cause a variety of problems in areas such as mechanical failures, emissions regulations and rotor design. Self-excited vibrations from sources of damping can lock in at lateral natural frequencies causing dangerously high vibration levels. The resulting highamplitude conical and bendi...

When a liquid drop is subjected to an asymmetric lateral vibration on a nonwettable surface, a net inertial force acting on the drop causes it to move. The direction and velocity of the drop motion are related to the shape, frequency, and amplitude of vibration, as well as the natural harmonics of the drop oscillation. Aqueous drops can be propelled through fluidic networks connecting various u...

We propose a novel sensor system for monitoring the structural health of a building. The system optically measures the relative-story displacement during earthquakes for detecting any deformations of building elements. The sensor unit is composed of three position sensitive detectors (PSDs) and lenses capable of measuring the relative-story displacement precisely, even if the PSD unit was incli...

Hunting is a potentially dangerous phenomenon related to the lateral oscillation of wheels that impacts rails and causes wear infrastructure’s components. Therefore, analysis timely detection hunting can lead application corrective maintenance tasks, reducing damages, costs even derailments as result. In this work, vibration response finite element model rail with hunting-induced loads by singl...

It was recently proposed that the lateral resonances around the working resonance band of ultrasonic piezoelectric sandwich transducers can be stopped by a periodic array of circular holes drilled along the main propagation direction (a phononic crystal). In this work, the performance of different transducer designs made with this procedure is tested using laser vibrometry, electric impedance t...

Good NVH is becoming must feature in recent commercial vehicles. One of the major discomforts caused to driver by Engine vibration during idling. The power train is suspended on the vehicle frame on several flexible mounts, whose purpose is to isolate the vibration between engine and frame. Total 6 different modes of Engine like roll, yaw, pitch and Vertical, lateral and longitudinal need to is...

Although bicycles in Japan are widely used for going to school, shopping and so on, satisfaction levels of cyclists for the condition of streets are not high. This is because most bicycle space is shared with pedestrians. The aim of this study is to find evaluation factors from a viewpoint of bicycles’ perception by monitoring cycling behavior using a Probe Bicycle System. The Probe Bicycle dev...

We demonstrate mechanical modulation of phonon-assisted field emission in a free-standing silicon nanomembrane detector for time-of-flight mass spectrometry of proteins. The impacts of ion bombardment on the silicon nanomembrane have been explored in both mechanical and electrical points of view. Locally elevated lattice temperature in the silicon nanomembrane, resulting from the transduction o...