Mechanics and Control  

Wojciech Batko

This tribute is devoted to the memory of Professor Zbigniew Engel, who passed away recently at the age of eighty. The text describes the late Professor Engel’s scientific life-track and his research activities, which resulted in the creation of a new scie... see more

Franklyn Duarte,Pablo Ballesteros,Xinyu Shu,Christian Bohn

Light flexible structures are easily prone to vibrate due to external forces or due to forces generated in the inner structure. This situation is common in machinery or mechanical structures with rotational devices. The unwanted vibration of such structur... see more

Ognjen Gagrica,Wil L. Kling,Tadeusz Uhl

Low voltage (LV) residential grids are generally not designed for high penetration of photovoltaic (PV) distributed generation. Maximization of PV output is not only opposed by solar energy intermittency, but also by grid impacts in form of reverse power ... see more

Dariusz Grzybek

The ability to damp vibrations is important in many structures, in which trusses are one of the main elements. The increase of the damping of the truss vibrations is possible by passive means or by the use of an active vibration control system integrated ... see more

Michal Manka,Lukasz Ambrozinski,Tadeusz Uhl

In recent years an intensive research activity into the application of guided waves (GWs) for structural health monitoring (SHM) can be observed. For instance, Lamb waves (LWs) have shown a great potential in monitoring of thin, planar structures. However... see more

Miluse Viteckova,Antonin Vitecek,Jiri Tuma

The article deals with the analysis of active vibration control of a rotor which is supported by journal bearings. The oil film between the journal and bushing induces the rotor instability, which causes rotor vibrations if rotational speed is greater tha... see more

Mateusz Wolnica

For semi-active control of vehicle suspension magnetoreological (MR) dampers are usually used. Construction of such dampers suggests that their properties should be dependent on fluid temperature, current of the coil and the relative velocity of the rod, ... see more