As rail transportation continues to advance, it provides significant convenience to the public.
However, the environmental vibration and noise generated during its operation have …

This article gathers together the most recent articles of adjustable tuned vibration absorbers.
The tuned vibration absorber was invented over 100 years ago, and its adjustability is also …

A roadmap for advanced ceramics for the period from 2010 to 2025 has been developed to
provide guidelines for future investments for policy makers, scientists and industry alike …

This paper presents a theoretical study on passive and active vibration isolation schemes
using inerter elements in a two degree of freedom (DOF) mechanical system. The aim of the …

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) have been widely employed as smart material for actuators in
recent years. Numerous investigations have focused on static or quasi-static applications …

Inspired by the advantages of the hexagon lattices and auxetic metamaterials, the typical
two-dimensional (2D) hexagon-type elastic metamaterials (EMs), that is, the concave, the …

Active control solutions appear to be a feasible approach to cope with the steadily
increasing requirements for noise reduction in the transportation industry. Active controllers …

Designing tunable resonators is of practical importance in active/adaptive sound generation,
noise control, vibration isolation and damping. In this paper, we propose to exploit the …

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the dielectric electroactive polymers
(DEAPs) and their potential in actuator applications due to the large strain capabilities. This …

The effective mass of an acoustical metamaterial chain, which consists of a modified
monatomic chain with a lightweight attached mass–link system, is derived and used to …