Smart materials have a growing technological importance due to their unique thermomechanical characteristics. Shape memory alloys belong this class of being easy manufacture, relatively lightweight, and able produce high forces or displacements with low power consumption. These aspects could be exploited in different applications including vibration control. A dynamic absorber (DVA) can used as...

Bicycle configuration is not as large as those of motorcycles or automobiles, while it indeed composes a complicated dynamic system. People’s requirements on comfortability, controllability and safety grow higher as the research and development technologies improve. The shock absorber affects the vehicle suspension performances enormously. The absorber takes the vibration energy and releases it...