Extreme intermodal energy transfers through vibro-impacts for highly effective and rapid blast mitigation

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Contact Force Models for Multibody Dynamics

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Large-scale experimental evaluation and numerical simulation of a system of nonlinear energy sinks for seismic mitigation

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Response attenuation in a large-scale structure subjected to blast excitation utilizing a system of essentially nonlinear vibration absorbers

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Shock Mitigation by Means of Low- to High-Frequency Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfers in a Large-Scale Structure

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Numerical and experimental study of the performance of a single‐sided vibro‐impact track nonlinear energy sink

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Design, simulation, and large‐scale testing of an innovative vibration mitigation device employing essentially nonlinear elastomeric springs

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A state-of-the-art review on the dynamic design of nonlinear energy sinks

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Nonlinear targeted energy transfer: state of the art and new perspectives

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Experimental Inter-Modal Targeted Energy Transfer in a cantilever beam undergoing Vibro-impacts

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Exploring effective TET through a vibro-impact nonlinear energy sink over broad parameter regimes

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Seismic mitigation of a benchmark twenty-story steel structure based on intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET)

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Experimental investigations of a vibro-impact absorber attached to a continuous structure

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Energy analysis of a nonlinear gas-spring dynamic vibration absorber subjected to seismic excitations

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Spectral energy scattering and targeted energy transfer in phononic lattices with local vibroimpact nonlinearities

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Enhanced seismic mitigation through energy management using nonlinear energy sinks with clearance–contacts

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Intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET) in a model with multi-stability

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On the broadband efficacy of impact absorbers

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How internal vibro-impact nonlinearities yield enhanced vibration mitigation

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Interband targeted energy transfer, wave arrest, and redirection in phononic lattices with strongly nonlinear local resonators

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A Nonlinear Damped Metamaterial: Wideband Attenuation with Nonlinear Bandgap and Modal DissipationPreprint

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Passive energy redirection in a phononic lattice network through nonlinear wave scattering mechanisms

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Excitation direction and intensity-dependent damping performance of a nonlinear energy sink: theory and experiments

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Inducing Intentional Strong Nonlinearity in Acoustics

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Intermodal targeted energy transfer in two dimensions

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Study on the vibration suppression characteristics of an impact absorber based on modal energy transfer

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Intermodal targeted energy transfer in a taut string with a point obstacle

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Intermodal Targeted Energy Transfer in Two Dimensions - Part II: Forced ResponsePreprint

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Beyond Common Simplifications: Strongly Nonlinear Transient Phenomena

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Systems with Contact Nonlinearities

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Intermodal Targeted Energy Transfer-Beyond Common Simplifications

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Research on Dynamics of a 2-DOF Coupled System with Negative Stiffness

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Broadband Interband Targeted Energy Transfer in Multiresonators Metamaterials With Vibro-Impact Nonlinearity

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Rapid non-resonant intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET) caused by vibro-impact nonlinearity

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Intermodal targeted energy transfer in two dimensions

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Seismic mitigation of a benchmark twenty-story steel structure based on intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET)

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Intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET) in a model with multi-stability

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Shock Mitigation by Means of Low- to High-Frequency Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfers in a Large-Scale Structure

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