Most of the engineering vibrations are harmful, due to many unfavorable consequences
caused by them, such as structural damage, poor working accuracy, etc., making it …

In recent decades, quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) vibration isolation systems with nonlinear
characteristics have aroused widespread attention and strong research interest due to their …

Despite their engineering significance, locally resonant metamaterials are facing the
challenge to cope with the need for broad-range band gap adjustment at low-frequencies …

Nonlinear vibration isolators with low dynamic stiffness have advantages compared to linear
isolators, but they also have limitations in terms of the maximum allowable displacement …

Quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) isolators have demonstrated appropriate low-frequency vibration
isolation performance without sacrificing the load-bearing capacity. The current …

Aiming at the problem of vibration suppression performance of the traditional track nonlinear
energy sink (TNES) is hindered by the energy threshold limitation, a track nonlinear energy …

A quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) device is proposed for both vibration isolation and energy
harvesting based on a concept of converting part of the vibrational energy into electrical …

The dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) can effectively suppress undesirable vibration of a
host structure, and the energy harvester is also proven to be a feasible way to collect …

Bio-inspired isolators are a novel type of nonlinear isolators by mimicking the bionic
structures and behaviors. Most of them are based on limb-like structures composed of rigid …

Abstract Quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) mechanism is one of the significant solutions with its
distinct advantage to the low-frequency vibration isolation problems in mechanical vibration …