This paper discusses a new technique that reproduces a stable cloth without introducing excessive damping artifacts. Semi-implicit integration methods have been widely used in cloth simulations for their high stability and speed. Artificial internal damping forces are derived from the linearization process of semi-implicit integration. This makes the system highly stable. However, the artificia...

A technique to identifY damping parameters directly from the frequency response functions (FRF) in matrix forms has been developed. Furtl1ermore, the technique identifies the viscous damping and structural damping coefficients separately. The technique provides more accurate damping values because it does not rely on the information of the natural modes as in the conventional method. The dampin...

The dynamics of flexible polymer molecules are often assumed to be governed by hydrodynamics of the solvent. However there is considerable evidence that internal dissipation of a polymer contributes as well. Here we investigate the dynamics of a single chain in the absence of solvent to characterize the nature of this internal friction. We model the chains as freely hinged but with localized bo...

We study the stabilization problem by interior (weak/strong) damping of the wave equation with boundary or internal time–varying delay feedback in a bounded and smooth domain Ω ⊂ IR. By introducing suitable Lyapunov functionals exponential stability estimates are obtained if the delay effect is appropriately compensated by the internal damping. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35L05, 93D15

When a piezoelectric transducer is incorporated in a mechanical structure, it is possible to damp the structural vibrations of the base structure by passive energy dissipation in the electrical domain [1]. Due to the strong electromechanical coupling in piezoelectric elements, the mechanical energy can be efficiently converted to electrical energy. By shunting the piezoelectric element to a pas...

Based on a fluid-structure interaction analysis (FSIA), the theoretical solution is developed for an integrated spherical shell-damping layer-water interaction system subjected to an internal sinusoidal pressure excitation. The effect of damping layer on reducing underwater noises is investigated. The pressure reduction factor is defined to measure the efficiency of noise reduction by the dampi...

The objective of this paper is to study the effect of the internal transducer resistance on the dynamic behaviour and the output power of an energy harvester when it is attached to a cubic load resistance. It is seen that by considering the internal resistance, the dynamic equation of a conventional nonlinear energy harvester changes so that it is not easy to separate the linear damping from th...

Shape memory alloys exhibit a high damping capacity in the mktensite state. Results obtained from both DMA and cyclic tests under tension-compression load show that the martensite damping capacity in NiTi SMAs is a function of both strain amplitude and annealing temperature. Internal friction due to movements of martensite twin boundaries within both elastic (accommodation) and inelastic (reori...