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Tuning of a Viscous Inerter Damper: How to Achieve Resonant Damping Without a Damper Resonance by Jan Høgsberg by
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Primary 2025 article by Jan Høgsberg, Applied Sciences15(2), article676. Abstract: a viscous dashpot in series with an inerter, modal-interaction tuning, effects of discarded modes and a numerical 20-storey building example. The university publication record supplies the byline, DOI, abstract and version-of-record provenance.
Secant Modulus in the Mississippi State University Virtual Laboratory for Solid Mechanics by
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Institutional teaching source, Strength and Stiffness Characteristics, Secant Modulus definition and pointA diagram. Defines the origin-to-point slope, dependence on the selected point, and notation Es. No individual author or publication date is inferred. The article's polynomial, integral identity and tensile numbers are original derivations.
Institutional Materials and Mechanics glossary, Elastic Modulus entry. The final two lines define tangent modulus as the local derivative of stress with respect to strain for nonlinear elastic response; preceding text distinguishes the initial linear Young modulus. No individual author or publication date is inferred from the page.
MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering module dated21November2000. Normal Stresses, pp.2–4, equations3–6: strain, second moment of area, linear elasticity and moment-curvature relation. Only these beam mechanics relations underpin the independent equal-material bundle calculation.
Single fiber tensile test - Glass and Carbon fibers by Rajnish Kumar and others by
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Dataset DOI10.5281/zenodo.4033353, available2020. Institutional contributor list gives Rajnish Kumar, Bo Madsen, Hans Lilholt and Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen. Description: individual tensile curves and summary sheets, several gauge lengths and test-setup compliance calculations. The accompanying publication is linked by exact title and DOI.
Understanding the mechanical response of glass and carbon fibres: stress-strain analysis and modulus determination by Rajnish Kumar and others by
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IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering942(1),012033(2020); DOI10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012033. Institutional primary abstract identifies a semi-automated single-fibre machine and stress-strain/modulus analysis for glass and carbon fibres. Full-paper download returned403; cited statements are supported by the public abstract.
Primary manufacturer technical note, pp1–3. Page1 explains deformation of the frame, load cell, grips and specimen; pp2–3 describe a stiff dummy specimen in the same load string and subtraction of its displacement at matching forces. Used for measurement-path context and the assumptions of a compliance correction, not adopted software recommendations or accuracy specifications.
Primary manufacturer documentation. Passage explaining when an extensometer is needed: crosshead displacement includes machine compliance, grip seating and load-train deflection. Used only to distinguish specimen and machine displacement, with no adopted performance claim or recommendation.
Primary University of Illinois facility description, Load Frames: Instron4483 ball-screw crosshead, crosshead-mounted load cell, optional specimen extensometer and position encoder; signals converted to engineering units and stored. Used for apparatus and measured channels, not a product recommendation or accuracy specification.
Determination of crash test pulses and their application to aircraft seat analysis by E. Alfaro-Bou and others by
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Primary NASA technical-report metadata and author abstract: twelve light-aircraft crash pulses; two vertical drop tests of an energy-absorbing prototype at 12.8 m/s and 36 G peak deceleration. The SAE publisher names Emilio Alfaro-Bou and gives DOI 10.4271/810611. NASA labels its record 1 April 1981, while SAE labels publication 1 February 1981; the publication year 1981 agrees.
Development of Constitutive Equations for Continuum, Beams and Plates by Tomasz Wierzbicki by
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MIT OpenCourseWare, 2.080J Structural Mechanics, Fall 2013, Lecture 4. Instructor/authorship identified by the official course page: ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-080j-structural-mechanics-fall-2013/pages/lecture-notes/ . Section4.1, pp.4-1–4-2, Equation4.1 and Figure4.1: uniaxial stress, axial extension and lateral contraction. Equation4.16 and section4.2: plane-stress component relations. Used for equations and loading assumptions; OCR-corrupted numerical material examples are not reproduced.
Capillary Origami: Spontaneous Wrapping of a Droplet with an Elastic Sheet by Charlotte Py and others by
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Physical Review Letters98,156103 (13 April2007). Author-hosted original paper: blog.espci.fr/jbico/files/2018/04/py07b.pdf . Experiments and Figures1–2: PDMS sheets, evaporating droplets and loop calibration; Equation1: elastocapillary length.
Manufacturer technical source: www.grasacoustics.com/products/head-torso-simulators-kemar
Product-family introduction and GRAS45BB-9/45BB-10 descriptions: anthropometric pinna, ear-canal extension, ear simulators and applications in ear/headphone testing. Supporting instruction manual www.grasacoustics.com/fileadmin-gras/Products/Files/man_45BB_45BC.pdf . Corporate source GRAS Sound & Vibration; current configuration documentation, not evidence that every listed modern component was present in the1975 manikin. Avoid treating manufacturer claims of an average human as exact equality for every listener.
Anthropometric manikin for acoustic research by M. D. Burkhard and R. M. Sachs by
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 58, 214–222 (1975), DOI 10.1121/1.380648. Original manikin paper; title/byline/date verified, no abstract supplied by PubMed. Manufacturer construction description: www.grasacoustics.com/industries/audiology/kemar .
Variability in the characterization of the headphone transfer-function by Abhijit Kulkarni and H. Steven Colburn by
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 107, 1071–1074 (2000), DOI 10.1121/1.428571. Author-uploaded primary PDF: www.researchgate.net/profile/H-Steven-Colburn-2/publication/12627272_Variability_in_the_characterization_of_the_headphone_transfer-function/links/00b4953967b4c281e4000000/Variability-in-the-characterization-of-the-headphone-transfer-function.pdf . Abstract and section I: repeated placement on KEMAR, headphone transfer and compensation.
Research Overview: natural-gas reference burners provide chemical heat-release input to oxygen-consumption calorimetry; confirmation burns exercise and cross-check the systems. Institutional primary experimental-method description.
Official facility description: large exhaust hoods and an oxygen-consumption calorimeter measure fire heat release rate. Used for the physical gas-accounting apparatus; no physiological example or organism-specific inference.
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