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Vibrations at a resonant frequency lead to catastrophic failure or at the very least, shorten the life span of the structure due to fatigue. These problems force engineers to implement damping techniques. Smart materials have been used over two decades to reduced vibration amplitudes. Recently, there has been much research and development on smart materials and structures.This work introduces an innovative approach for vibration suppression using passively shunted

Utilizing a computational approach, this study quantifies the onset of lubrication starvation for line contacts of rough surfaces operating under typical ranges of automotive gearing applications. The response parameter is selected as the critical film thickness supply, at which starvation initiates. The potential influential parameters (predictors) considered include normal force density, rolling velocity, sliding, lubricant viscosity, and surface roughness amplitude. A non-Newtonian thermal mixed lubrication model is employed to determine the critical lubricant supply under various operating and surface roughness conditions. General linear regression is implemented to reach an easy-to-use equation (R-squared value higher than 97%), facilitating the quantification of starvation dependence on the predictors that are statistically significant.

This study investigates the role of the tribo-dynamic behavior in the contact fatigue crack nucleation for spur gears. To describe this fatigue phenomenon, a six-degree-of-freedom (DOF) lumped parameter dynamics formulation is coupled with a set of mixed elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) governing equations. The former provides the dynamic tooth force to the EHL analysis, and the latter yields the gear mesh damping as well as the friction excitations that are required in the gear dynamics simulation. The converged tribo-dynamic surface normal pressure and tangential shear are then used to determine the multi-axial stress fields using the potential theory based closed-form stress formulation for half space. Lastly, the stress means and amplitudes are implemented in a multi-axial fatigue criterion to assess the fatigue damage.