In this paper, the problems arising from determining the modal properties of large and complex structures are investigated. For this purpose, the free interface component mode synthesis method has been used. In the following, Singular-Value Decomposition (SVD) is applied as a powerful mathematical tool to determine the appropriate coordinates to participate in the coupling process. Also, the effective error resources including modal shear error and the continuous systems overlapping error and their solution are introduced. Initially, a discrete system has been employed to investigate the free interface component mode synthesis method. Eventually, the studied main samples in this research are beam, plate and cylindrical shell. It is worth noting that the application of this method on the cylindrical shell has not been observed in previous researches. پرونده مقاله

In analytical studies, step (Heaviside) function is used to simulate an impact load. However, in real behaviour of materials, loading and unloading take a short time. The present study discusses analytically the effects of pulse shape and rising time of an impact load on dynamic stress intensity factor. Firstly, a pulse load with positive slip (linear and non-linear) is applied on a cracked plate and the amount of dynamic stress intensity factor on the crack tip is obtained. Then the effects of pulse time are discussed. Results show that increasing the rise time decreases the stress intensity factor because of reduction of inertia effects. Moreover, the duration of rise time plays the main role in dynamic stress intensity factor changes and how the variations are not matter. پرونده مقاله

The majority of underactuated systems are nonholonomic, due to non-integrable differential constraints. Therefore, controlling an underactuated system is considered as a challenging problem. In this study, an adaptive controller based on super-twisting sliding mode controller is proposed for a class of robust underactuated systems subjected to uncertainties and external disturbances. The adaptive compensator was designed so that there would be no need to the upper bound of the external disturbance. The controller parameters of adaptive sliding mode control are tuned based on a multi-objective non-dominated sorting of genetic optimization algorithm. The results of simulation and the demonstration of the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed scheme are presented. پرونده مقاله