The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in activation of the musculoskeletal system in response to soft-tissue vibrations with different compression conditions (externally applied) in a drop-jump landing task. Twelve trained male participants were instructed to perform drop-jump landings from 3 heights in compression shorts (CS) and regular shorts without compression (CC). External...

There are no optimal vibration damping designs for safe movement at the present stage of development high-speed rail transport. The purpose improving existing structures is their ability to simultaneously dampen both longitudinal and transverse vibrations. For dynamic research, an analytical method has been developed calculating stresses deformations sidewall frame electric locomotive bogie in ...

Passive shunt damping involves the connection of an electrical shunt network to a structurally attached piezoelectric transducer. In recent years, a large body of research has focused on the design and implementation of shunt circuits capable of significantly reducing structural vibration. This paper introduces an efficient, light weight, and small-in-size technique for implementing piezoelectr...

This paper presents results of experiments carried out on free vibrations of a cable with an attached magnetorheological (MR) damper. The attention is focused on the analysis of amplitude dependent damping of a cable with an MR damper operating in passive and controlled modes. In the case of the passive system, damping characteristics are nonlinear and display relevant drawbacks of the system. ...

Considering the impact of the nonlinear stiffness, a 2 DOF dynamic nonlinear vibration model with cubic terms was established according to the structural feature and nonlinear behavior of the tracked ambulance. In the case of primary resonance and 1: 1 internal resonance, multiple scale method was used to obtain a first-order approximate solution for this model. Taking the parameters of the tra...

The development of high damping materials for noise reduction and attenuation of vibration on structural applications, such as automotive and aerospace industries, has been investigated. This experimental study is concerned with the damping capacity (tan delta) and dynamic Young’s modulus (|E*|) of Silicon carbide (SiC) reinforced aluminium (Al) matrix composite. AlSi-SiCp composite was produce...

Piezoelectric shunt damping is a well known technique to damp the vibrations of mechanical structures. This technique relies on the piezoelectric effect that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. A damping effect on the host structure is observed when the electrical energy is dissipated. In order to optimize the damping performance, the transferred energy as well as the dissipated ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate a novel approach for output feedback damping controller design ofSTATCOM in order to enhance the damping of power system low frequency oscillations (LFO). The design ofoutput feedback controller is considered as an optimization problem according with the time domain-basedobjective function which is solved by a honey bee mating optimization algorithm (HBMO...