Hysteretic dampers have been widely used as effective passive installed at interstories since they are inexpensive compared with other types of dampers. It is well known that added stiffness hysteretic increases floor acceleration responses. However, for pulse-like ground motions sudden input and short duration.

In this paper, the phenomena of hysteretic behaviour of friction force observed during experiments are discussed. On the basis of experimental and theoretical analyses, we argue that such behaviour can be considered as a representation of the system dynamics. According to this approach, a classification of friction models, with respect to their sensitivity on the system motion characteristic, i...

In this paper, an improved hysteretic PWM control with feed-forward and feedback for the buck converter is presented. The proposed control method is based on hysteretic control of capacitor C voltage, which not only offers faster transient response to meet the challenges of the power supply requirements of fast dynamic input and load changes, but also provides better stability and solves the co...

We show that a parametrically driven cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation exhibits a hysteretic nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition for large enough quintic nonlinearity. These results help to understand the recent experimental observation of this phenomenon [A. Esteban-Martín, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223903 (2005)].

In this paper we give a formal deenition of dissipative systems that is considerably more general than earlier deenitions. The measured output is irrelevant in this formulation. The key component of dissipation is an appropriate work rate. We also deene cyclo-dissipation and show how it can be used to obtain a suitable work rate. Using this idea, we propose a new work rate for the Preisach hyst...