This study presents numerical simulations and experimental verification of a vibration-based damage detection technique. Health monitoring of a submerged pipe's girth-weld against an advancing notch is attempted. Piezoelectric transducers are bonded on the pipe for sensing or actuation purposes. Vibration of the pipe is excited by two means: (i) an impulsive force; (ii) using one of the piezoel...

The characteristics of mobile phone usage when user is moving are different from those when user is sedentary or working in an office (Baek et al., 2006). This means that the default vibration frequency of current mobile phones may not be suitable for use in a mobile environment. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the optimal vibration frequency for the perception of mobile phone...

If future electric and hybrid electric vehicle batteries are to be designed such that the impact of vibration induced resonance is minimized, engineers tasked with the design of the vehicle's energy storage system must have a rigorous understanding of key system attributes such as the natural frequencies of the cell, the level of damping present and the mode shapes induced within the battery un...

Traditionally, application of ultrasound imaging on vocal fold vibration has been limited by the frame rate of dynamic sonography. When the frame rate fs is lower than half of the vibration frequency, ambiguity in the vibration frequency evident from dynamic sonography occurs. This ambiguity is known as aliasing. We exploited the aliasing effect in dynamic 2D-mode sonography to capture the vibr...

Heavy vehicle truck transmission gearbox housing is subjected to load fluctuations, harmonic excitation, gear meshing excitation, gear defects, varying speed and torque conditions. Transmission errors and internal excitations are the root cause of vibration and noise. The main objective of this research work is weight calculation and modal analysis of gearbox housing. For weight calculation fou...

Piezoelectric transduction has received great attention for vibration-to-electric energy conversion over the last five years. A typical piezoelectric energy harvester is a unimorph or a bimorph cantilever located on a vibrating host structure, to generate electrical energy from base excitations. Several authors have investigated modeling of cantilevered piezoelectric energy harvesters under bas...

in this paper, the rayleigh's quotient and the inverse vector iteration method are presented. the latter approach helps to obtain the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a structure. inverse vector iteration method with shifting enables to determine the higher modes. some basic theorems of linear algebra are presented and extended to study the free vibration of structures. the variation...