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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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Particle dampers have received considerable attention in recent years as a novel damping technique. However, due to its high degree of nonlinearity, no mature damping model has been constructed. This article proposes an equivalent raft model that takes int ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Analytical Studies in Support of an Improved Approach to the Design of Acceleration-Sensitive Nonstructural Elements

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Applied Technology Council, Sponse2022

Analysis of Dampers in Time-Sensitive Networks With Non-Ideal Clocks

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Dampers are devices that reduce delay jitter in the context of time-sensitive networks, by delaying packets for the amount written in packet headers. Jitter reduction is required by some real-time applications; beyond this, dampers have the potential to so ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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WILEY2021

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Asymmetrically coupled resonators for mass sensing

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Mechanically coupled resonators have been applied in the last years to the development of nanomechanical mass-sensors based on the detection of the different vibration modes of the system by measuring on a single resonator. Their sensitivity and capability ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Tuning the resonance frequencies and mode shapes in a large range multi-degree of freedom micromirror

Matthias Imboden

The ability to actively shift the primary resonance of a 2D scanning micromirror allows the user to set the scanning direction, set the scanning frequency, and lift otherwise degenerate modes in a symmetrically designed system. In most cases, resonant scan ...

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The viscous torsional pendulum

François Gallaire, Francesco Viola

A disk that is free to rotate about its axis and connected to a torsional spring behaves as a damped oscillator when twisted and released. The initial elastic energy is periodically turned to kinetic energy and it gets progressively dissipated by the visco ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2017

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Blends of oligopeptide terminal polyisobutylene or polystyrene

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IEEE2014

Thin film bulk acoustic wave resonators tuning from first principles

Alexander Tagantsev, Alexander Kvasov

Being important for the antiresonance frequency tuning of tunable thin Film Bulk Acoustic wave Resonators (FBARs), the non-linear electrostrictive coefficient was for the first time calculated for BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 using ab initio methods. Further, taking ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Experimental investigation of added mass effects on a hydrofoil under cavitation conditions

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Elsevier2013

Engineered Absorption Enhancement and Induced Transparency in Coupled Molecular and Plasmonic Resonator Systems

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2013

An Artificial Muscle Ring Oscillator

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Analysis of the dynamic response of pump-turbine runners- Part I: Experiment

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Xiaopeng Huang, Eduard Egusquiza

When in operation, pump-turbine runners have to withstand large pressure pulsations generated by the rotor-stator interaction. The analysis of the dynamic behavior of these structures is necessary to avoid damage. For this analysis a realistic model of the ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2012

Effect of mechanical loading on the tuning of acoustic resonances in Ba (x) Sr1-x TiO3 thin films

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Andreas Nöth

The effect of mechanical loading on the tuning performance of a tunable Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator (TFBAR) based on a Ba0.3Sr0.7TiO3 (BST) thin film has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. A membrane-type TFBAR was fabricated by ...

Springer US2010

Tunable thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator based on BaxSr1-xTiO3 thin film

Nava Setter, Paul Muralt, Alexander Tagantsev, Andreas Nöth

A tunable membrane-type thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator (TFBAR) based on a Ba0.3Sr0.7TiO3(BST) thin film has been fabricated. The resonance and antiresonance frequencies of the device can be altered by applying a dc bias: both shift down with increa ...

2010