...Stefano Lenci; Maurizio Brocchini; Carlo Lorenzoni The rotations of a parametric pendulum fitted onto a suitable floating support and forced to move vertically under the action of water waves have been studied on the basis of a dedicated wave flume laboratory experiment. An extended experimental...

...Olivier A. Bauchau; Leihong Li The parameterizations of rotation and motion are the subject of continuous research and development in many theoretical and applied fields of mechanics such as rigid body, structural, and multibody dynamics. Tensor analysis expresses the invariance of the laws...

...Mathias Legrand; Christophe Pierre; Bernard Peseux Consideration is given to a very specific interaction phenomenon that may occur in turbomachines due to radial rub between a bladed disk and surrounding casing. These two structures, featuring rotational periodicity and axisymmetry, respectively...

...Ahmed A. Shabana Several finite element formulations used in the analysis of large rotation and large deformation problems employ independent interpolations for the displacement and rotation fields. As explained in this paper, three rotations defined as field variables can be sufficient to define...

...Sung K. Koh; Gregory S. Chirikjian; G. K. Ananthasuresh Algorithms for planning quasistatic attitude maneuvers based on the Jacobian of the forward kinematic mapping of fully-reversed (FR) sequences of rotations are proposed in this paper. An FR sequence of rotations is a series of finite rotations...

... “curious” behavior observed in experiments, and are able to predict and explain failure mechanisms in previously proposed control strategies. Branches of rotating stall amplitudes The first three portraits (1, 37, 32) exhibit this same phenomenon, at least partially. The nonzero equilibrium...

...Steven W. Shaw; Peter M. Schmitz; Alan G. Haddow This paper describes an analytical and experimental investigation of the dynamic response and performance of a special type of centrifugal pendulum vibration absorber used for reducing torsional vibrations in rotating systems. This absorber has...