This paper presents the Fourier and wavelet characterization of vibratio...

Models of the dynamic response of the lumbar spine have been used to examine vertebral fractures (VFx) during falls and whole body vibration transmission in the occupational setting. Although understanding the viscoelastic stiffness or damping characteristics of the lumbar spine are necessary for modeling the dynamics of the spine, little is known about the effect of intervertebral disk degener...

Abstract. In this paper we consider the transmission problem of a material composed of three components; one of them is a Kelvin–Voigt viscoelastic material, the second is an elastic material (no dissipation), and the third is an elastic material inserted with a frictional damping mechanism. The main result of this paper is that the rate of decay will depend on the position of each component. W...

We introduce a method for using dynamic light scattering to measure the frequency-dependent linear viscoelastic moduli of complex fluids. The technique exploits the fluctuation dissipation theorem, which relates the relaxation of thermal excitations of a probe particle to the viscoelastic properties of the surrounding medium. The relaxation of the thermal excitations of probe particles are dete...

With the objective of achieving composite material systems that feature high stiffness and high mechanical damping, consideration is given here to unit cell analysis of particulate composites with high volume fraction of inclusions. Effective elastic properties of the composite are computed with computational homogenization based on unit cell analysis. The correspondence principle together with...