Fruit flies respond to gentle vibration as a mechanism for falling asleep, and insights from their behavior could be a pathway to developing aids for humans, according to researchers at Thomas ...

A research team led by Professor Kaiji Sato (Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) revealed a method for designing with ease ...

(Nanowerk News) Associate professor Farbod Alijani and PhD student Ata Keskekler have provided supporting evidence for the existence of a nonlinear dissipation mechanism in mechanical systems. As a ...

Korean researchers have developed an energy harvester that can generate electric power from ambient vibrations with diverse frequencies through a novel automatic resonance tuning mechanism. It was ...

Apple is investigating ways to make the iPhone's "silent mode" truly silent by monitoring audible sound levels generated by a phone's vibrator and adjusting the mechanism if it becomes too loud. Since ...

Steam turbine rotors are susceptible to bending during some operational evolutions, which can lead to excessive vibration and ultimately failure. Rotor bending that results in premature failure of ...