Because the underlying physiology of pathological tremor in a Parkinson's patient is not well understood, the existing physical and drug therapies have not been successful in tremor treatment. Different mathematical modeling of such vibration has been introduced to investigate the problem and reduce the existing vibration. Most of the models have represented the induced vibration as a sinusoida...

There are numerous sources of vibration in an industrial environment: in processes such as pile driving and blasting; rotating and reciprocating machinery such as engines, Compressors, and motors; transportation vehicles such as trucks, train and aircraft; the flow of fluids; and many others. Vibration absorption is a method of adding a tuned spring-mass absorber to a system to create anti-reso...

This article presents the design and analysis of a novel dynamic stiffness tuning vibration absorber working with Magnetorheological elastomers (MRE). In this design, the MRE worked in a shear mode, but its MR effect was significantly enhanced by dynamically squeezing the sample thickness with an embedded piezoelectric (PZT) actuator. With this design, both the quasi-static magnetic field and t...

This paper presents vibration analysis of an autoparametric pendulum-like mechanism subjected to harmonic excitation. To improve dynamics and control motions, a new suspension composed of a semiactive magnetorheological damper and a nonlinear spring is applied. The influence of essential parameters such as the nonlinear damping or stiffness on vibration, near the main parametric resonance regio...

For investigating the detail effects of the vibration absorbers in the cavity of the double-layer wall (DLW), a vibro-acoustic numerical model was developed and the behavior of the system was simulated by the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD method). By comparing the results for various cases, the mechanism of the vibration absorber in the DLW and the effects of the location side and ...

The non-linear vibrations of a barrel, induced by the interaction with a high-speed moving projectile, negatively affect the shooting accuracy of a weapon. This study presents a new method that determines the non-linear behavior of the barrel with a passive vibration absorber and optimizes the absorber using the genetic algorithm (GA). Since both the barrel geometry and its coupling with the ab...

Novel low-power or semiactive devices are developed for vibration suppression applications. By manipulating the structural stiffness, the resisting forces generated by the devices are quite large and independent of velocity. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the devices and to justify the main assumptions used. The critical design issue of device placement is ...