In this article, a mechanical 1-degree-of-freedom oscillator with harmonic forcing and
impacts was analysed both numerically and experimentally. A special attention was paid to …

This study focuses on the successful fabrication of a cost-effective strain sensor using
exclusively additive manufacturing Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology, enabling …

Co-dimension-one grazing bifurcations of 1/n impact periodic motions are often
accompanied by saddle-node bifurcations or period-doubling bifurcations. The presence of …

The discontinuity mapping technique provides quite a good way to study the near-grazing
dynamics in the impacting oscillators. However, disagreements between the results …

This study presents a method for fabricating elastic tensile fuses using polydimethylsiloxane
(PDMS). The fuses are created by exploiting the variations in the physical properties of …

In the work it is proposed a new discontinuous impact model based on the restitution
coefficient and the finite duration of the collision, which are functions of the velocity before …

Based on the special dynamical property of continuous transition at certain degenerate
grazing points in the single-degree-of-freedom impact oscillator, the control problem of the …

Grazing bifurcation might bring dramatic and abrupt qualitative changes of system
responses in non-smooth systems. The control problem of near-grazing dynamics in a two …

Vibro-impact systems with intermittent contacts are strongly nonlinear. The discontinuity of
impact can give rise to rich nonlinear dynamic behaviors and bring forth challenges in the …

Limit-switch sensors are input-output devices that switch operating state in reaction to the
crossing of a threshold value of their input. These are used to monitor and control critical …