The problem of vehicle–bridge dynamic interaction system under articulated high speed trains is studied in this paper. A dynamic interaction model of the bridge-articulated train system is established, which is composed of an articulated vehicle element model and a finite element bridge model. The vehicle model is established according to the structure and suspending properties of the articulat...

In this work piezo-stack actuators mounted in consoles are utilized to actively dampen vibrations of a flexible car body structure by introducing bending moments. Using an example of a heavy metro vehicle the complete design for the active vibration damping system is presented. Both analytical modeling and a system identification of the vehicle are described, issues of modal representation and ...

The paper presents the semi-active vibration control based on the Skyhook algorithm which benefits from the adaptively tuned inverse magnetorheological (MR) damper model. The structure of the inverse model consists of the atan function and a linear viscous damping component. The proposed algorithm was tested by simulation of the quarter-car suspension model subjected to multiple bump road excit...

The study develops a methodology that combines the vibration failure test, finite element analysis (FEA), and theoretical formulation for the calculation of the electronic component’s fatigue life under vibration loading. A specially designed plastic ball grid array (PBGA) component with built-in daisy chain circuits is mounted on a printed wiring board (PWB) as the test vehicle for the vibrati...

this paper presents a mathematical model for the vibration analysis of a three-component piezoelectric force sensor. the cubic theory of weakly nonlinear electroelasticity is applied to the model for describing the electromechanical coupling effect in the piezoelectric sensing elements which operate in thickness-shear and thickness-stretch vibration modes. hamilton's principle is used to d...

An in-wheel motor electric vehicle has high unsprung mass because of its in-wheel motor, which decreases vehicle ride comfort and vehicle safety. This paper presents a controllable suspension employing an optimal design hybrid damping control strategy based on ideal skyhook and groundhook as a reference. A sliding mode controller is designed to make the plant track the ideal reference model. Th...

Engine mount is purposed to control an excessive motion generated from powertrain system and to isolate vibration and noise to be transmitted to main system. As vibration design of engine mount is one of the main items on the phase of vehicle development, the design should be optimized considering various design variables and uncertainties. In the study, design optimization of engine mount for ...

the vibrations produced by trains include two parts which are deterministic and random vibrations. due to variation of dynamic loads and patterns of load-time, the random vibration of moving train is one of the most important issues in the field of railway engineering. one of the important sources in producing the train vibrations is rail roughness and irregularities. in this paper, responses o...

Research on damage of gears and gear pairs using vibration signals remains very attractive, because vibration signals from a gear pair are complex in nature and not easy to interpret. Predicting gear pair defects by analyzing changes in vibration signal of gears pairs in operation is a very reliable method. Therefore, a suitable vibration signal processing technique is necessary to extract defe...

A cross sectional study was conducted among military armoured vehicle drivers in the two largest mechanized battalions with the objective to determine the prevalence of low back pain (LBP), and its association with whole body vibration (WBV) and other associated factors. A self-administered questionnaire and Human Vibration Meter were used in this study. A total of 159 respondents participated ...