This paper describes the development of a Retrievable Subsurface Accelerometer (RSA) for the NSF George E. Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) project at UCLA. The RSA was developed to obtain subsurface vibration data during forced-vibration experiments and aftershock events. The RSA can be rapidly installed using a CPT truck and subsequently retrieved using structu...

The objective of the work reported in this paper is to investigate the development of hybrid iterative learning control with input shaping for input tracking and end-point vibration suppression of a flexible manipulator. The dynamic model of the system is derived using the finite element method. Initially, a collocated proportional-derivative (PD) controller utilizing hub-angle and hub-velocity...

This paper presents an investigation into the comparative performance of intelligent system identification and control algorithms within the framework of an active vibration control (AVC) system. Evolutionary Genetic algorithms (GAs) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference system (ANFIS) algorithms are used to develop mechanisms of an AVC system, where the controller is designed on the basis of opti...

Heat sinks are widely adopted in electronics cooling together with different technologies to enhance the cooling process. For the small electronics application, the small scale pin fins heat sinks are extensively used to dissipate heat in electronics devices. Due to the limit of space in the small devices, it is impossible to increase heat transfer area. In order to improve the heat transfer pe...

In general, mechanical equipment such as cars, airplanes, and machine tools all operate with constant frequency characteristics. These constant working characteristics should be controlled if the dynamic performance of the equipment demands improvement or the dynamic characteristics is intended to change with different working conditions. Active control is a stable and beneficial method for thi...

The paper presents an approach that may enable the separation of the vibrations induced by underground traffic from the vibrations induced by other sources, based on Second Order Blind Identification (SOBI) algorithm. The signals recorded in different locations of an instrumented building are mixed signals from different internal and external vibration sources. The blind source separation algor...

Directing at the problem of torsional vibration occurred in the start-up procedures of long shaft drive transmission existed in printing equipment, we raised a variable structure control method based on Variable parameters fuzzy. The method not only displays feature of traditional non-linear variable structure control like nondeference derivation, planning the dynamic process and good capacity ...

In view of the high rate of false alarm problems on the distributed optical fiber sensing technique applied in enclosure, a sensor is proposed based on double MachZehnder interferometer and a method is needed urgently to identify intrusion accurately. This involves eliminating nonintrusion events caused by operating environments from intrusion events. To address the issue, this paper states the...

The vehicle driving comfort has become one of the important factors of vehicle quality and receives increasing attention. In this paper, the mechanical and mathematical models of the halfcar, five degrees of freedom DOF of a vehicle were established, as well as the pseudoexcitation model of road conditions for the front wheel and the rear wheel. By the pseudoexcitation method, the equations of ...

The vibration originated from the rotor’s unbalance mass impacts on the current oscillation. When the rotor rotating at high speed, power amplifier circuit will be burned down by excessive vibration control current, and at the same time the excessive control force will be generated. The vibrating force transfers to frame, which causes the system vibration and influence the dynamic properties an...