The hysteretic behaviour is an essential feature of many physical systems. Such a feature is conveniently accounted for in hysteretic systems modelling through the well known nonlinear Bouc-Wen equations. But these involve several unknown parameters and internal signals that are not all accessible to measurements. These difficulties make the identification of hysteretic systems a challenging pr...

Since the beginning of the 1990s hysteresis operators have been employed on a larger scale for the linearisation of hysteretic transducers. One reason for this is the increasing number of mechatronic applications which use solid-state actuators based on magnetostrictive or piezoelectric material or shape memory alloys. All of these actuator types show strong hysteretic effects. In addition to h...

The modeling of deteriorating hysteretic behavior is becoming increasingly important, especially in the context of seismic analysis and design. This paper presents the development of a versatile smooth hysteretic model based on internal variables, with stiffness and strength deterioration and with pinching characteristics. The theoretical background, development, and implementation of the model...

One fundamental requirement in the search for novel magnetic materials is the possibility of predicting and controlling their magnetic anisotropy and hence the overall hysteretic behavior. We have studied the magnetism of Au:Co films (~30 nm thick) with concentration ratios of 2:1, 1:1, and 1:2, grown by magnetron sputtering co-deposition on natively oxidized Si substrates. They consist of a Au...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the ability of a nonlinear ultrasound technique, the so-called nonlinear resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (NRUS) technique, for detecting early microdamage accumulation in cortical bone induced by four-point bending fatigue. Small parallelepiped beam-shaped human cortical bone specimens were subjected to cyclic four-point bending fatigue in several ste...

This paper focuses on understanding and assessing the effect of hysteretic behavior (i.e., bilinear, peakoriented and pinching) in the evaluation of peak deformation demands and their distribution over the height for regular frame structures over a wide range of stories (from 3 to 18) and fundamental periods (from 0.3 s. to 3.6 s.). The ground motions used are those with frequency content chara...

Hysteretic dynamical systems are challenging to control due to their hard nonlinearity and difficulty in modeling. One type of systemwith hysteretic dynamics that is gaining use in aerospace systems is the shape-memory alloy-based actuator. These actuators provide aircraft and spacecraft systems with the ability to achieve component-level or vehicle-level geometry or shape changes. Characteriza...

The use of hysteretic control for current regulators is very applicable to LED drivers. It is easy to sense the current in the FET but this is comprised of only the positive ramp. The FET current waveform makes it simple to turn the switch off at the correct peak value of drain current; however, the information from the negative ramp is not available in the path of the FET. This paper examines ...