This article presents a damage detection method for prestressed reinforced concrete (PRC) elements based on free vibration tests and nonlinear damping identification. Integrated static and dynamic experiments were carried out on three precast PRC beam specimens. The static loading induced different levels of damage to the beams. At each damage level, impulsive loading was applied to the beams a...

natural hazards such as earthquakes have threatened the life of human beings during the history.as a consequence, the vibration mitigation of structures has caught great importance. activecontrol of structures is one of the rapidly emerging areas in the concept of structural control. thispaper presents a control method to deal with this subject when the dynamics of the structure ishysteretic an...

We present an adequate analytical approach to the description of nonlinear vibration with strong energy exchange between weakly coupled oscillators and oscillatory chains. The fundamental notion of the limiting phase trajectory (LPT) corresponding to complete energy exchange is introduced. In certain sense this is an alternative to the nonlinear normal mode (NNM) characterized by complete energ...

The generalized integral transform technique (GITT) is employed to obtain a hybrid analyt-ical–numerical solution for dynamic response of clamped axially moving beams. The use of the GITT approach in the analysis of the transverse vibration equation leads to a coupled system of second order differential equations in the dimensionless temporal variable. The resulting transformed ODE system is th...

Abstract Variational principles and variationally consistent boundary conditions are derived for a system of double Rayleigh beams undergoing vibrations subject to axial loads. The elastic layer connecting the modelled as three-parameter nonlinear Winkler–Pasternak with Winkler having linear components Pasternak only component. forced freely vibrating beam using semi-inverse approach. Hamilton’...

in this article, the bending and free vibration analysis of functionally graded (fg) nanocomposites timoshenko beam model reinforced by single-walled boron nitride nanotube (swbnnt) using micro-mechanical approach embedded in an elastic medium is studied. the modified coupled stress (mcst) and nonlocal elasticity theories are developed to take into account the size-dependent effect. the mechani...

   The main purpose of the present investigation is to analyze more comprehensively the size-dependent nonlinear free vibration response of multilayer functionally graded graphene platelet-reinforced composite (GPLRC) nanobeams. As a consequence, both of the hardening stiffness and softening stiffness of size effect are taken into consideration by implementation of the nonlocal str...

Multiphase vortices are widely present in the metallurgical pouring processes, chemical material extraction, hydroelectric power plant energy conversion, and other engineering fields. Its critical state detection is of great significance improving product yield resource utilization. However, multiphase vortex a complex dynamics problem with highly nonlinear features, its fluid-induced vibration...

Mesh phasing has a dramatic impact on the static and dynamic behaviours of planetary gear systems. This research investigates coupled phase-tuning mechanism two-stage systems corresponding relationship with vibration system. Due to inherent meshing symmetry system, phase-coupled tuning system is derived based force relationships coupling characteristics between different stages. The excitation ...