No. 251: [Equipment & Vibration Engineering] The Physics of High-Speed Shimmy: Self-Excitation and the Collapse of Dynamic Equilibrium Caused by 'Negative Dampi…

Have you ever felt your blood run cold when your handlebars suddenly began to shake violently without warning during a ...
Phys.org

Eliminating mechanical vibrations leads to better performing mechatronic systems

For precision engineering systems, such as CD and DVD players, anti lock braking systems and computer hard disk drives, vibration can significantly affect performance. Now, A*STAR engineers have ...
Phys.org

Scientists use vibrations within cells to identify their mechanical properties

Scientists at Université de Montréal have developed a unique technique to map, on a scale of milliseconds, the elasticity of the components inside a cell. Cells quake. In somewhat the same way that ...
Engineering

Vibration Analysis: Take a virtual look inside your operating machinery

An increase or change in the vibration of machinery is normally an indication that something is wrong. Anyone mechanically minded knows an unusual vibration is telling them to carry out maintenance ...
UMass Lowell

Catalog : Degree Pathway for Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering - Vibrations/Dynamics/Controls Concentration

1.Thesis Track M.S Students on the thesis track will design a student specific curriculum sequence of 12 credit hours of coursework with the first semester of graduate study. 9 Credit hours of thesis ...
GlobalSpec

Chapter 2: Mechanical Vibrations Practice Using the Lagrange Equations

The focus of this textbook is on the vibrations of engineering structures, not mechanisms. However, this chapter focuses on pendulums as representative of mechanisms. Pendulums are rarely a part of an ...
Science Daily

Bad vibrations: Eliminating mechanical vibrations leads to better performing mechatronic systems

For precision engineering systems, such as CD and DVD players, anti lock braking systems and computer hard disk drives, vibration can significantly affect performance. Now, engineers have developed an ...