Introduction The study of the dynamic properties of vocal fold vibration is important for understanding the vocal production mechanism and the impact of organic and functional changes. The advent of high-speed videolaryngoscopy (HSV) has provided the possibility of seeing the real cycle of vocal fold vibration in detail through high sampling rate of successive frames and adequate spatial resolu...

Insects use airborne vibrations caused by their own movements to control their behaviors and produce airborne vibrations to communicate with conspecific mates. In this review, I use two examples to introduce how insects use airborne vibrations to accurately control behavior or for communication. The first example is vibration-sensitive sensilla along the wing margin that stabilize wingbeat freq...

In major cities around the world, urbanization and rising land prices have been driving an increase in real estate development adjacent to, and above in many cases, railway lines and other transportation corridors. Structure-borne sound and vibrations from traffic can be are annoying to human occupants; if high, they can also be disruptive to operation of manufacturing facilities, medical facil...

Stewart platform is a good candidate for high speed and six degree of freedom motion control, finding its application in the area of multi-axis vibration control. The critical problems associated with Stewart platform are the high non-linearity and uncertainty in its dynamics. To model the system dynamics of the Stewart platform a simple linear model is developed, for the motion of the Stewart ...

A versatile vibration energy harvesting platform based on a triboelectricity is proposed and analyzed. External mechanical vibration repeats an oscillating motion of a polymer-coated metal oscillator floating inside a surrounding tube. Continuous sidewall friction at the contact interface of the oscillator induces current between the inner oscillator electrode and the outer tube electrode to co...

Comfort, reliability, functionality performance which provide a longer life cycle requires thourogh understanding and analysis of the vibrations, this is a general rule for most of the static and dynamic when studying the functionality performance of any application. Vibrations is an extremely important issue to consider when designing various systems.The hysteresis in the dampers is very impor...

Article history: Received 20 September 2016 Received in revised form 11 May 2017 Accepted 14 May 2017 Available online 10 June 2017 In this paper, free longitudinal vibration of nanorods is investigated from the wave viewpoint. The Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity theory is used for nanorods modelling. Wave propagation in a medium has a similar formulation as vibrations and thus, it can be used to...

For advanced aerospace propulsion systems, development of ceramic matrix composite integrally-bladed turbine disk technology is attractive for a number of reasons. The high strength-to-weight ratio of ceramic composites helps to reduce engine weight and the onepiece construction of a blisk will result in fewer parts count, which should translate into reduced operational costs. One shortcoming w...

This paper presents analytical models, as well as numerical and experimental verification of intrinsic dissipation due to thermoelastic loss in tuning-fork resonator. The thermoelastic analytical governing equations are created for resonator vibrating at drive-mode and sense-mode, and thermoelastic vibration field quantities are deduced. Moreover, the theoretical values are verified that coinci...

Simulation of human movements is an essential component for proactive ergonomic analysis and biomechanical model development (Chaffin, 2001). Most studies on reach kinematics have described human movements in a static environment, however the models derived from these studies cannot be applied to the analysis of human reach movements in vibratory environments such as in-vehicle operations. This...