The Smart Spring concept is a semi-active approach to vibration suppression that makes use of an actively tuneable impedance device. The Smart Spring device makes efficient use of piezoceramic …

The “Smart Spring” is the newly invented spring element [5] with a steeply sloping spring characteristic and a number of stable positions. In this paper, two new alternative models are...

Using electrical heating, the spring can become a linear actuator requiring no other moving parts. Uses include: robotics, pumps, window opening, locks.

The Smart Spring is a novel approach to control combinations of impedance properties of a structure, such as stiffness, damping, and effective mass. It uses stacked piezoceramic actuators to adaptively …

ritical vibration of the transmission shaft system with Smart Spring, based on the ADAMS and MATLAB joint simulation method. Firstly, the joint simulation model of three-support shafting with Smart Spring …

In this paper, the configuration and structure design of the smart spring support for multi-span shafting are studied, and its vibration-damping performance is verified by experiments.

A new configuration and structure of smart spring support are proposed, and the vibration control performance of smart spring to three-supports shaft systems under unbalanced excitation is verified …