Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …

Most of the engineering vibrations are harmful, due to many unfavorable consequences
caused by them, such as structural damage, poor working accuracy, etc., making it …

In this paper, an origami-inspired vibration isolator is proposed and numerically investigated
to achieve a quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) property. A truss-spring based stack Miura-ori (TS …

In this study, a novel compact energy harvesting dynamic vibration absorber (EHDVA) with
quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) characteristics is engineered for both vibration suppression and …

Despite their engineering significance, locally resonant metamaterials are facing the
challenge to cope with the need for broad-range band gap adjustment at low-frequencies …

Various quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) vibration isolators have been emerged in recent years
and applied successfully in low-frequency vibration isolation. However, in most cases, the …

The benefit of introducing nonlinear stiffness elements to improve the dynamic performance
of vibration energy harvesters, vibration isolators and vibration absorbers have attracted …

Nonlinear vibration isolators with low dynamic stiffness have advantages compared to linear
isolators, but they also have limitations in terms of the maximum allowable displacement …

The vibration control performance of a combined vibration isolation (CVI) system consists of
a quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) system and a linear dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) is …

This paper proposes a paradigm shift in the perspective of designing nonlinear oscillators,
ie, the exploitation of nonlinearity to achieve a linear behaviour to good engineering …