[HTML][HTML] Application of elastic metamaterials/meta-structures in civil engineering: A review

N Contreras, X Zhang, H Hao, F Hernández - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspired by sonic engineering, locally resonant metamaterials have attracted much attention
from researchers in civil engineering for their unique characteristics of stress wave …

A review of the inerter and inerter-based vibration isolation: theory, devices, and applications

C Liu, L Chen, HP Lee, Y Yang, X Zhang - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
The inerter has garnered much attention in the past two decades owing to its unique
mechanical characteristics. As a substitution of the capacitance element based on the …

Performance evaluation for inerter-based dynamic vibration absorbers

Y Hu, MZQ Chen - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the H∞ and H 2 optimization problem for inerter-based
dynamic vibration absorbers (IDVAs). The proposed IDVAs are obtained by replacing the …

Load mitigation for a barge-type floating offshore wind turbine via inerter-based passive structural control

Y Hu, J Wang, MZQ Chen, Z Li, Y Sun - Engineering Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the application of inerter to a barge-type floating offshore wind
turbine for the purpose of mitigating loads of the wind turbine structures induced by wind and …

Frequency-dependency/independency analysis of damping magnification effect provided by tuned inerter absorber and negative stiffness amplifying damper …

M Wang, FF Sun, S Nagarajaiah, YW Li - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
As passive control techniques, both inerter device (ID) and negative stiffness device (NSD)
produce forces that have a phase delay of π from common springs, ie, negative stiffness …

Performance benefits in passive vehicle suspensions employing inerters

MC Smith, FC Wang - Vehicle system dynamics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
A new ideal mechanical one-port network element named the inerter was recently
introduced, and shown to be realisable, with the property that the applied force is …

Tuned inerter dampers for civil structures subjected to earthquake ground motions: optimum design and seismic performance

W Shen, A Niyitangamahoro, Z Feng, H Zhu - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Tuned inerter damper (TID) is a promising passive vibration control device in earthquake
engineering because it achieves a large inertance-to-mass ratio without requiring a large …

Nonlinear energy sink with inerter

YW Zhang, YN Lu, W Zhang, YY Teng, HX Yang… - … Systems and Signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel archetype of nonlinear energy sink (NES) enhanced by an inerter is proposed for
vibration reduction of vibrating systems. The proposed NES-inerter suppressed vibration …

Analysis and optimisation for inerter-based isolators via fixed-point theory and algebraic solution

Y Hu, MZQ Chen, Z Shu, L Huang - Journal of sound and vibration, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the problem of analysis and optimisation of the inerter-based
isolators based on a “uni-axial” single-degree-of-freedom isolation system. In the first part, in …

Mechanical and energy-harvesting model for electromagnetic inertial mass dampers

H Zhu, Y Li, W Shen, S Zhu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, a novel inerter-based damper termed electromagnetic inertial mass damper
(EIMD) that is capable of generating a large inertance and providing a controllable …