Advances in Noises and Vibrations for Machines

Dear Colleagues,

Vibration analysis and monitoring are currently required in various fields of industries, from automotive and aeronautics to manufacturing and quality control, from machining and maintenance to civil engineering.

Machine vibration is a normal and typically unavoidable result of moving and rotating parts or the effects of the ground-motion transfer on an object. To mitigate the negative effects of vibration, in many cases, they need to be assessed and monitored. Vibrations, as well as noise measurements, are also a good indication of systems' behaviour or the degrading quality of the product in the case of manufacturing. Vibration, especially modal analysis of structures and machines, is also a good way to validate a finite element model.

The current industrial trends focus on noise and vibration mitigations but also the use of contact and non-contact novel-sensing technologies for measurements. 

For this Special Issue, all papers, theoretical or experimental, on all aspects of a machine's vibration, especially in relation to civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering applications, as well as transport, materials and geoscience, are invited.

The contributions to this Special Issue may deal with all aspects of vibrations and their occurrence in the machines, especially:

• Diagnostics of the machines;
• Structural health monitoring;
• Measurement techniques in sound and vibration engineering;
• Computational methods in vibration problems;
• Modeling and identification of dynamical systems;
• Mathematical modeling in sound and vibration analysis;
• Signal processing and analysis;
• Active vibration control;
• Energy methods in vibration engineering;
• Dynamics of machinery and rotating systems;
• Vibroacoustics of machinery;
• Vibrations and noises of transport systems, vehicles and roads;
• Structural dynamics, vibrations of composite materials structures;
• Vibration problems in environmental engineering;
• Vibrations and dynamic stability of structural elements of machines;
• Flow-induced vibrations, fluid-structure interaction;
• Dynamic behavior of Vibration Isolation Elements and Systems.

Both review papers and in-depth research papers on new developments in this field will be collected in this Special Issue.

Dr. Lukasz Scislo
Dr. Davide Astolfi
Dr. Francesco Castellani
Guest Editors

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• vibration measurement
• vibration control
• condition monitoring
• vibratory machines
• vibration control
• finite element modelling
• structural health monitoring
• modal analysis
• FFT
• noise control