Progress in materials testing methods has enabled Researchers and Engineers to measure mechanical properties, and study and characterize mechanical phenomena that control deformation and failure down ...

A revolutionary concept in low-frequency vibration isolation is utilized in Minus K ® vibration isolators.Vertical-motion isolation is supplied by a negative-stiffness mechanism (NSM) combined with a ...

Technology advances have steadily been implemented to improve the performance of commercial atomic force microscopes (AFMs) since the release of the first commercial model about 30 years ago. Now, the ...

Researchers have developed a novel negative-stiffness isolation device that offers a pioneering solution for seismic protection. The device, designed to provide multidirectional negative stiffness and ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...

Keywords: negative stiffness device, adaptive passive control, highway bridge seismic isolation, seismic protection, shake table testing Abstract: The primary focus of this research is to analyze, ...