... load alternations. In this case, the damped vibration of the harvester induced by each load alternation may be viewed as an isolated transient response. For such problems, we consider the optimization of generated power through the use of an active power-electronic drive to explicitly regulate...

... modal damping to capture the energy dissipation in the spans and bearings. We seek steady-state periodic solutions of 8 for the periodic driving pulley excitation using the harmonic balance method ( 13 ). A special feature exists in 8 that the last equation for θ t is the only...

...Andrea Tonoli; Nicola Amati; Enrico Zenerino Multiribbed serpentine belt drive systems are widely adopted in accessory drive automotive applications due to the better performances relative to the flat or V-belt drives. Nevertheless, they can generate unwanted noise and vibration which may affect...

...Lixin Zhang, Graduate Student; Jean W. Zu, Associate Professor; Zhichao Hou, Research Fellow A linear damped hybrid (continuous/discrete components) model is developed in this paper to characterize the dynamic behavior of serpentine belt drive systems. Both internal material damping and external...