This paper introduces a novel passive suspension system for ground vehicles. This system is based on a flexible Electromagnetic Shock Absorber (EMSA). In the proposed system, efforts are made to a) select a high damping coefficient usable in a car b) determine Physical dimensions and geometry not much different from those of the mechanical shock absorbers and c) seletct EMSA weight and volume l...

This paper investigates a passive control method of a point absorbing wave energy converter by considering the displacement and velocity constraints under irregular waves in the time domain. A linear generator is used as a power take-off unit, and the equivalent damping force is optimized to improve the power production of the wave energy converter. The results from nonlinear and linear passive...

This paper introduces a novel passive suspension system for ground vehicles. This system is based on a flexible Electromagnetic Shock Absorber (EMSA). In the proposed system, efforts are made to a) select a high damping coefficient usable in a car b) determine Physical dimensions and geometry not much different from those of the mechanical shock absorbers and c) seletct EMSA weight and volume l...

Recently, multilevel inverters are more researched due to the advantages they offer over conventional voltage source inverters in grid connected applications. Passive filters are connected at the output of these inverters to produce sinusoidal waveforms with reduced harmonics and to satisfy grid interconnection standard requirements. This work proposes a new passive filter topology for a pulse ...

In recent years, medium-voltage variable-speed drives have become popular in the industry. However, some applications, use of long cables can lead to overvoltages at motor terminals, affecting lifespan. Under such conditions, passive filters is recommended. inductive capacitive (LC) results resonances, leading control stability issues. This issue be mitigated by introducing a resonance damping ...

Abstract: Electromechanical coupling defines the ratio of electrical and mechanical energy exchanged during a flexure cycle of a piezoelectric actuator. This paper presents an analysis of the dynamic electromechanical coupling factor (dynamic EMCF) for cantilever based piezoelectric actuators and provides for the first time explicit expressions for calculation of dynamic EMCF based on arrangeme...

Semiactive control systems that offer the reliability of passive control systems as well as the versatility and adaptability of active control systems have received significant attention for structural vibration control (Jung et al., 2004). Magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers have emerged as such a class of semiactive damping devices. By activating the MR fluid contained in the device through...

Modal control and spatial filtering technologies for vibration and/or structural acoustics radiation mitigation may be implemented through the use of distributed modal piezoelectric transducers with properly shaped electrodes which, in order to increase the robustness and stability of the controlled structural system, turn undesirable mode’s contributions unobservable and uncontrollable over th...

Hill-type muscle models are commonly used in biomechanical simulations to predict passive and active muscle forces. Here, a model is presented which consists of four elements: a contractile element with force-length and force-velocity relations for concentric and eccentric contractions, a parallel elastic element, a series elastic element, and a serial damping element. With this, it combines pr...

Asymptotic stability of finite energy solutions to a fluid-structure interaction with a static interface in a bounded domain Ω∈Rnn, n=2, is considered. Nonlinear interior damping and dynamic and static boundary damping are exploited to stabilize the system. It is shown that the undamped model subject to “partial flatness” geometric condition on the interface produces solutions whose energy conv...