The field of energy harvesting has grown concurrently with the rapid development of
portable and wireless electronics in which reliable and long-lasting power sources are …

Excessive vibrations in civil and mechanical systems can cause structural damage or
detrimental noise. Structural vibrations can be mitigated either by attenuating energy from …

Magnetic properties of magnetostrictive FeGa films deposited by electrodeposition method
on flexible curvature substrates were investigated under various mechanical stresses. The …

This paper presents the design and testing of an electrically controllable magnetostrictive
spring that has a dynamically tunable stiffness (ie, a magnetostrictive Varispring). The device …

The Villari effect, through which mechanical energy is transferred to magnetic energy in
magnetostrictive materials can be utilized in energy harvester and damper designs …

Magnetostrictive materials exhibit coupling between magnetic and mechanical energies.
This bidirectional energy exchange can be employed for actuation, sensing, and energy …

Ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM), a form of 3D printing based on ultrasonic metal
welding, allows for room-temperature fabrication of adaptive structures with seamlessly …

The ΔE effect (Young's modulus variation of magnetostrictive materials) is useful for tunable
vibration absorption and stiffness control. The ΔE effect of iron-gallium (Galfenol) has not …

This paper investigates the use of Galfenol (FeGa) composite beams as solid-state, adaptive
vibration absorbers that have an electrically-tunable sti ness. The study encompasses the …

In this paper, a computational study is presented of structural vibration control that is realized
by switching a magneto-strictive transducer between high and low stiffness states. Switching …