The number and nature of hysteretic responses typically exhibited by mechanical systems
and materials are so huge that their modeling and identification are usually carried out on an …

A recent analytical model of hysteresis, developed by the authors to simulate a great variety
of complex uniaxial rate-independent mechanical hysteresis phenomena, is reformulated in …

The negative stiffness exhibited by bi-stable mechanisms together with the tunable
superelasticity offered by shape memory alloy (SMA) wires can enhance the dynamic …

The primary goal of structural health monitoring is to detect damage at its onset before it
reaches a critical level. In the present work an in-depth investigation addresses deep …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been around for a while, but their applications in
controlling dynamic response of structures are relatively new. This paper presents a …

This paper investigates an innovative negative‐stiffness device (NSD) that modifies the
apparent stiffness of the supported structure for seismic isolation. The NSD comprises a …

In this work, a novel uniaxial multilinear model for superelastic shape memory alloys that
considers stiffness and strength degradation, and residual strain is proposed. To develop it …

This work investigates the nonlinear response of a hysteretic multi-stable vibration isolation
system under impulsive excitations. The multi-stable behavior is obtained by adding, in …

Nowadays there has been a substantial escalation in the consumption of the global annual
mortality rate due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and the traditional …

In this work, the nonlinear buckling and post-buckling behavior of shallow arches made of
Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) is investigated. Arches are susceptible to large deflections, due …