Nonlinearities are inevitable in engineered systems and have historically contributed to analysis and design challenges associated with uncertain and unexpected behavior. However, recent advances in analysis, design and control of vibration systems demonstrate that nonlinear behavior can be well accounted for and consequently employed in vibration control. This has led to improved vibration isolation and/or suppression performance as compared to traditional linear counterparts. Nonlinear stiffness, nonlinear damping and nonlinear inertia (or equivalent mass) can all be exploited for vibration control, individually or simultaneously, to achieve advantageous and reliable performance. Beneficial nonlinear behaviors can be realized in equivalent stiffness, damping and/or inertia (mass) for a vibration isolation system via simple structure or mechanism designs. The resulting beneficial nonlinear dynamics can also be intentionally introduced into active vibration control systems, such as in vehicle suspensions, to achieve improved vibration suppression and energy-saving control. The potential benefits can be further extended to many other multi-disciplinary areas including sensor systems, energy harvesting, novel actuators, and robots. However, critical challenges and open problems still exist, to include: which nonlinearities are beneficial to specific vibration control problems, in what situations are they beneficial and reliable, and how to implement them in the simplest and most cost-effective way. This special issue is thus devoted to collecting new advances and/or pioneering studies which will reshape our understanding and knowledge of the application of nonlinear dynamics in vibration control, isolation, and related engineering disciplines.
Potential topics both in theory and/or experiments related to exploiting nonlinear benefits include, but are not limited to:
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VSI: NG-Vibration Control
Important Dates
Announcement: 18 Mar 2021
Submission Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Review completed: 31 Mar 2022
Guest Editors
Xingjian JING
Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration, & Control Lab (NDVC)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PR China.
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Adrien BADEL
Laboratoire SYstème and Materials for Mechatronics (SYMME)
Polytech Annecy-Chambéry
Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France
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Oleg GENDELMAN
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
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Gaëtan KERSCHEN
The Space Structures and Systems Lab (S3L)
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Liege, Belgium
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Michael J. LEAMY
Nonlinear Mechanics Lab
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, US
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