EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF CONSTRAINED LAYER DAMPING STRUCTURES FOR VIBRATION ISOLATION IN LIGHTWEIGHT RAILWAY VEHICLES

Experimental Analysis of Constrained Layer Damping Structures for Vibration Isolation in Lightweight Railway Vehicles

Rolling stock manufacturers face the challenge of manufacturing lightweight high-speed trains without deteriorating comfort.One of the difficulties is to mantain or increase structural stiffness and damping as the car bodies become lighter.Leaving aside active solutions, which are expensive and generally complex to implement, increasing structural

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Beating time, gesticulating and dancing

This article examines how Western-style choir conducting was introduced in Cameroon by the Basel Mission.In analyzing different conducting techniques within a Presbyterian choir organisation in southwest Cameroon, we observe a new take on the function of the choir director, modelled after several aspects of the precolonial musical culture.Moreover,

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