The dynamic responses of membrane are completely dependent on Pre-tensioned forces which are applied over a boundary of arbitrary curvilinear shape. In most practical cases, the dynamic responses of membrane structures are undesirable. Whilst they can be designed as vibration-based energy harvesters. In this paper a smart flat membrane sheet (SFMS) model for vibration-based energy harvester is ...

BACKGROUND Many industrial devices have an excessive vibration which can affect human body systems. The effect of vibration on cochlear histology has been as a debatable problem in occupational health and medicine. OBJECTIVES Due to limitation present in human studies, the research was conducted to survey the influence of vibration on cochlear histology in an animal model. MATERIALS AND MET...

Vibration of tympanic membranes of the middle ear model with TORP and flat membrane made of gum were studied by means of holographic interferometry. Results were as follows. 1) As the tension of the gum became high, the amplitude decreased in low frequency. The segmental vibration was observed in low frequency as the tension became low. 2) The difference between 0.03mm and 0.06mm was not signif...

Vibration based energy harvesting has been widely investigated to target ambient vibration sources as a means to generate small amounts of electrical energy. While cantilever-based geometries have been pursued frequently in the literature, here membrane-based geometries for the energy harvesting device is considered, with the effects of an added mass and tension on the effective resonant freque...

To better understand biophysical mechanisms of mechanosensory processing, we investigated two cell types in the Drosophila brain (A2 and B1 cells) that are postsynaptic to antennal vibration receptors. A2 cells receive excitatory synaptic currents in response to both directions of movement: thus, twice per vibration cycle. The membrane acts as a low-pass filter, so that voltage and spiking main...

The E-type membrane which is used for measuring forces in other five directions will generate coupling outputs and influence accuracy of the sensor, when six-axis force sensor based on double layer E-type membrane is under dynamic loads in MZ direction. In terms of the fundamental theory of mechanical vibration, vibration mechanics and elastic mechanics, this paper simplifies the E-type membran...

The damping ratio plays a main role in the vibration of membrane structures. In order to study force air application structures, this present paper investigated response structure subjected impact loads. Eight experiments with different tension forces were conducted, and load was simulated using rigid bullet certain velocity. displacement data obtained laser meter. FEM used simulate vibration, ...

The vibration of the organ of Corti, a three-dimensional micromechanical structure that incorporates the sensory cells of the hearing organ, was measured in three mutually orthogonal directions. This was achieved by coupling the light of a laser Doppler vibrometer into the side arm of an epifluorescence microscope to measure velocity along the optical axis of the microscope, called the transver...