Impulsive loads and walking loads can generate problematic structural vibrations in flooring-systems. Measures that may be taken to mitigate the problem would often be to consider the implementation of a tuned mass damper or even more advanced vibration control technologies; this in order to add damping to the structure. Basically also passive humans on a floor act as a damping source, but it a...

A ‘‘smart’’ base isolation strategy is proposed and shown to effectively protect structures against extreme earthquakes without sacrificing performance during the more frequent, moderate seismic events. The proposed smart base isolation system is composed of conventional low-damping elastomeric bearings and ‘‘smart’’ controllable ~semiactive! dampers, such as magnetorheological fluid dampers. T...

Title of Dissertation: DEVELOPMENT OF MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID ELASTOMERIC DAMPERS FOR HELICOPTER STABILITY AUGMENTATION Wei Hu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Norman M. Wereley Department of Aerospace Engineering Conventional lag dampers use passive materials, such as elastomers, to dissipate energy and provide stiffness, but their damping and stiffness levels d...

This paper proposes a novel and an affordable lower limb prosthesis to enable normal gait kinematics for trans-femoral amputees. The paper details the design of a passive prosthesis with magneto-rheological (MR) damping system and electronic control. A new control approach based on plantar insole feedback was employed here. Strategically placed sensors on the plantar insole provide required inf...

A quasi-passive leg exoskeleton is presented for load-carrying augmentation during walking. The exoskeleton has no actuators, only ankle and hip springs and a knee variabledamper. Without a payload, the exoskeleton weighs 11.7 kg and requires only 2 Watts of electrical power during loaded walking. For a 36 kg payload, we demonstrate that the quasi-passive exoskeleton transfers on average 80% of...

This study characterizes tonic and phasic stretch reflex and stiffness and viscosity changes associated with spastic hemiparesis. Perturbations were applied to the ankle of 27 hemiparetic and 36 healthy subjects under relaxed or active contracting conditions. A nonlinear delay differential equation model characterized phasic and tonic stretch reflex gains, elastic stiffness, and viscous damping...

Impact of Active Distribution Network Cell (ADNC) Study on Power System Oscillation requires modelling of power system components. The system covers the well knows Two AreasSystem benchmark which studies low frequency electromechanical oscillations in large interconnected power system. This study examined the effect of passive cell on Active Distributive Network Cell (ADNC). The method adopted ...

The robots sharing space and surrounding environment with human being are called friendly with man robots. They must posses compliance, to emanate safety and security, to be shock protected. In the work presented in this paper basic mechanical characteristics are pointed out determining the safety in the “human-robot” interaction and some approaches for their modulation. A special attention is ...

Connecting a passive electrical network to a structurally attached piezoelectric transducer is referred to as passive shunt damping. Current shunt circuit designs, e.g. a single mode L¡R network, typically require large inductance values of up to thousands of Henries. In practice, discrete inductors are limited in size to around 1 H: By placing an additional capacitance across the terminals of ...