DT Swiss has launched its answer to pedal kickback with the arrival of Degrees of Freedom (DF) anti-pedal kickback system. With DF allowing the freehub to rotate a specific range before engaging, the ...

Keywords: Structural fuse systems. Single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems. Passive hysteretic energy dissipation (PED) devices. Seismic performance. Displacement demands. Flooring systems.

A nonlinear, conservative system having two degrees of freedom is considered. The potential energy is subject to certain restrictions which are consistent with the strain energy of springs. Then, the ...

What do you get when you add hardware and software to the principles of magnetic levitation? The likely answer from Jeff Johnson, mechatronics product manager at Beckhoff Automation, U.S., would be: ...