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

Bistable mechanical systems having two local minima of potential energy can rest in either
of the two stable equilibrium states in the absence of external loadings. A snap‐through …

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology involves the creation of nanoscale devices made of DNA
whose primary function arises from their ability to undergo controlled motion or …

Structural DNA nanotechnology utilizes synthetic or biologic DNA as designer molecules for
the self-assembly of artificial nanostructures. The field is founded upon the specific …

As detailed structural characterizations of large complex DNA nanostructures are hard to
obtain experimentally, particularly if they have substantial flexibility, coarse-grained …

This paper presents a general discretization-based approach to the large deflection
problems of spatial flexible links in compliant mechanisms. Based on the principal axes …

Roller rig tests were adopted to illustrate two typical types of Hopf bifurcations existing in the
railway vehicles. In order to investigate the influence of the vehicles' parameters on the …

Electromechanical products and systems are often designed to transform or reconfigure
between two or more states. Each state is customized to fulfill a specific set of functions, and …

Mechanical advantage is traditionally defined for single-input and single-output rigid-body
mechanisms. A generalized approach for identifying single-output mechanical advantage for …

The pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) used to simulate compliant beams without inflection
point had been well developed. In this paper, two types of PRBMs are proposed to simulate …