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Ultrasonic motors (USM) possess heavy nonlinear and load dependent characteristics of ultrasonic motors (USM) such as dead-zone and saturation reverse effects, which vary with driving conditions. In this paper, behaviour of an ultrasonic motor is modelled using Hammerstein model structure and experimental measurements. Simulation results show the good matching between the developed model and experimental measurements. © 2004 IEEE  

Ultrasonic motors (USM's) possess heavy nonlinear and load dependent characteristics such as dead-zone and saturation reverse effects, which vary with driving conditions. In this paper, behavior of an ultrasonic motor is modeled using Hammerstein model structure and experimental measurements. Also, model predictive controllers are designed to obtain precise USM position control. Simulation results indicate improved performance of the motor for both set point tracking and disturbance rejection. © 2005 ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society  

In this paper, nanoscale modeling of a multi-shell fullerene embedded in an elastic medium and its application to vibrational analysis is investigated. The spherical layers of the multi-shell fullerene are concentrically nested, with carbon-carbon van der Waals interactions between them. Also, the whole multi-shell fullerene is influenced by polymer-carbon van der Waals forces from the surrounding elastic medium. The elasticity generated by the carbon-carbon bonds is assumed to be distributed isotropically over the fullerene surfaces. Following derivation of explicit equations for the motion of the multi-shell fullerene, vibrational behavior of a double-shell fullerene is analyzed and... 

In this paper, nanoscale vibrational analysis of a multi-layered graphene sheet embedded in an elastic medium is investigated and the corresponding natural frequencies and the associated modes are determined. The modeling is based on the fact that the elastic moduli of a graphene sheet in two perpendicular orientations are different, so the plate is considered to be anisotropic. The graphene layers stacking at the top of each other bond with carbon-carbon van der Waals forces between two adjacent ones. Also, the whole multi-layered graphene sheet is influenced by polymer-carbon van der Waals forces from the surrounding elastic medium. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. Al rights reserved  

The rail-wheel interactions and their effects on the wagon dynamics has been studied in this article. Also the effects of braking on wagon and rail vibrations are studied. The model consists of a wagon with body, two bogies and four wheels having 21 degrees of freedom in a planar arrangement. The rail system is treated as a Timoshenko beam supported by sleepers, ballast, subballast, and subgrade. To determine rail-wheel contact forces, Hertzian nonlinear contact theory and Kalker theory have been used. The model is simulated for a number of working conditions and the results are validated by comparing to previous works in the literature. Copyright © 2005 by ASME  

Vibration measurement is an important tool in many research fields; there are several methods for measuring vibration of a system. In conventional methods accelerometers are fixed to the body, so there is a systemic error due to fixing an external object to the body surface that interferes with the true vibration of the body. We have proposed image processing as a new method to record and determine the frequency response of human body. This method provides vibration measuring without using contacting sensors. Moreover the main advantage is its lower noise sensitivity in comparison to accelerometers. Further more another important point is the fact that all devices used in our developed... 

A large number of people are exposed to whole body vibration in their occupational life. Measuring vibration is an important tool in rehabilitation and biomechanical fields of research. We have proposed image processing as a new method to record and determine the frequency response of human body. The arranged set up for forced vibration consisted of an AC motor, a variable speed drive unit and a shaking table for producing one directional sinusoidal vibration. Volunteers were asked to stand on the shaking table at a relaxed posture. Two digital camcorders were used to capture the motion of colored pencil-dot markers on the skin of human body (forehead) and on the edge of the shaking table.... 

An analytical-numerical method to determine the dynamic response of beams with various boundary conditions subjected to a moving mass under a pulsating force is explained. Governing partial differential equations of the system are changed to a convenience type of ordinary differential equations to be solved through a Runge-Kutta scheme. Pulsating force specifications influenced the dynamic response of the beam depending on the moving mass properties. Results showed the significant effect of the boundary conditions on the dynamic response of the beam, which was considered rarely in the past. Stiffening the constraints reduces the maximum stresses in the beams. Results for identical... 

Introducing a suitable model for a structure to understand its behavior under different conditions of loading is very important. Mathematical modeling is the simulation of a physical structure or physical process by means of suitable analytical or numerical construct. One of suitable methods for finding deflection of a beam under different forms of loading is Finite Element Method (FEM). In this paper we find deflection of a beam using FEM based on Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko theory. © 2009 IEEE  

The resulting motion in waves can be considered as a superposition of the motion of the body in still water and the forces on the restrained body. In this study the effect of added mass fluctuation on vertical vibration of TLP in the case of vibration in still water for both free and forced vibration subjected to axial load at the top of the leg is presented. This effect is more important when the amplitude of vibration is large. Also this is important in fatigue life study of tethers. The structural model used here is very simple. Perturbation method is used to formulate and solve the problem. First and second order perturbations arc used to solve the free and forced vibration respectively  

Rapid growth in generating power from wind turbines led to application of long laminated composite blades. However, as the length of blades increases, the risk of failure due to excessive vibration increases. Therefore, a reliable wind power generator requires an efficient and accurate, yet economical structural health monitoring system to detect vibration and apply a reliable control to prevent from unpredicted failure. This paper presents an optimal, low cost and continuous vibration monitoring system for laminated composite blades using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG). Utilizing a layerwise displacement theory, the Finite Element (FEM) model has been developed for the wind turbine blade. The... 

In this paper, a comprehensive assessment of design parameters for various beam theories subjected to a moving mass is investigated under different boundary conditions. The design parameters are adopted as the maximum dynamic deflection and bending moment of the beam. To this end, discrete equations of motion for classical Euler-Bernoulli, Timoshenko and higher-order beams under a moving mass are derived based on Hamilton's principle. The reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM) and extended Newmark-β method are utilized for spatial and time discretization of the problem, correspondingly. The design parameter spectra in terms of the beam slenderness, mass weight and velocity of the moving... 

Using some agent variables, the general structure of the dynamic model of a spatial mobile robot with N long spatially flexible links and N revolute joints has been exposed. It is composed of a set of 5N + 6 nonlinear coupled partial differential motion equations under the influence of the boundary conditions. Non-conservative forces/moments have been neglected. While being considered, the general structure of the dynamic model will not change, but a few exciting/damping terms will arise within the agent variables. The base of the robot is an unconstrained rigid body in space and the links as 3D Euler-Bernoulli beams undergo tension-compression, torsion and two spatial bendings while elastic... 

Dynamic response of multispan viscoelastic thin beams subjected to a moving mass is studied by an efficient numerical method in some detail. To this end, the unknown parameters of the problem are discretized in spatial domain using generalized moving least square method (GMLSM) and then, discrete equations of motion based on Lagrange's equation are obtained. Maximum deflection and bending moments are considered as the important design parameters. The design parameter spectra in terms of mass weight and velocity of the moving mass are presented for multispan viscoelastic beams as well as various values of relaxation rate and beam span number. A reasonable good agreement is achieved between... 

This paper presents a numerical parametric study on design parameters of multispan viscoelastic shear deformable beams subjected to a moving mass via generalized moving least squares method (GMLSM). For utilizing Lagrange's equations, the unknown parameters of the problem are stated in terms of GMLSM shape functions and the generalized Newmark-β scheme is applied for solving the discrete equations of motion in time domain. The effects of moving mass weight and velocity, material relaxation rate, slenderness, and span number of the beam on the design parameters and possibility of mass separation from the base beam are scrutinized in some detail. The results reveal that for low values of beam... 

The paper presents the experimental and analytical model analysis of a steel-girder arch bridge. The field test is carried out by ambient vibration testing under traffic excitations. Both the peak picking method in the frequency domain and the stochastic subspace identification method in the time domain are used for the output-only model identification. A good agreement in identified frequencies has been found between the two methods. It is further demonstrated that the stochastic subspace method provides better mode shapes. The three-dimensional finite element models are constructed and an analytical model analysis is then performed to generate natural frequencies and mode shapes in the...