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EditorialShock and Vibration in Transportation Engineering

Minvydas Ragulskis,1 Luis Munoz,2 RafaB Burdzik,3 Julia I. Real,4

Wen-Hsiang Hsieh,5 and RadosBaw Zimroz6

1Kaunas University of Technology, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania2Universidad de los Andes, Bogota 18A10, Colombia3Silesian University of Technology, 40007 Katowice, Poland4Polytechnic University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain5National Formosa University, Huwei 63245, Taiwan6Wrocław University of Technology, 50370 Wrocław, Poland

Correspondence should be addressed to Minvydas Ragulskis; [email protected]

Received 19 May 2016; Accepted 19 May 2016

Copyright © 2016 Minvydas Ragulskis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons AttributionLicense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited.

One of the most important fields of mechanical engineeringis the transportation issue. Almost any of the mechanicalobjects made by humans have to provide some type oftransportation task. In many cases, the transportation is thefundamental purpose and the objective of the mechanism,but transportability can also be an important part of the func-tionality of many complex engineering systems. Therefore,shock and vibration phenomena play an important role ina wide range of mechanical systems. The main purpose oftransportation systems and its mechanisms is to provide themovement of various types of loads or passengers. Hence,the vibration of the vehicle and its components is usuallyperceived as a negative and unwanted effect. However, vibra-tion signals do also serve as an ample source of informationon the technical state of the systems and are commonlyemployed in the online and offline diagnostic systems. Shockand vibration analysis still represents a serious challengeto researchers, engineers, and constructors in the area oftransportation systems. Much attention is devoted to thedevelopment of new approaches in vibration signals analysis,where the extraction of the useful information in the signalis effectively exploited for intelligent fault diagnostics and theprediction of the remaining lifetime of components. All thatknowledge is exploited for the development of new solutionsand for further research in the area of shock and vibrationanalysis in transportation engineering, what has originatedthe need for this special issue.

Such wide range of research on shock and vibrationin transportation engineering has attracted the attentionto this special issue from the International academic andengineering communities. It has attracted 52 submissionsfrom authors from all around the world; only 15 papers havebeen selected and included in this special issue on shock andvibration in transportation engineering after completing acareful and rigorous peer-review process by the internationalexperts in the appropriate fields.

Themain purpose of this special issue is to present recentdirections in vibration research in various branches of trans-portation engineering. Many of the submitted manuscriptswere rather interesting, but due to the limitation of the specialissue and due to the appropriateness of topics to its scope,only a small fraction of manuscripts was selected after thepeer review. The present papers cover an extensive range ofproblems in transportation engineering.

The papers of this special issue focus on such topicsas the damping of vibration, active and semiactive suspen-sions, vibration phenomena in transportation mechanisms,torsional oscillations, traffic noise and vibration, vibrationresponse characteristics of transport engineering objects(bridges and tunnels), and application of signal processingfor various purposes (diagnostics and fault identification).The selected papers demonstrate and emphasize the widerange of vibration research in transportation engineering.Papers of the special issue present investigations conducted

Hindawi Publishing CorporationShock and VibrationVolume 2016, Article ID 8457605, 2 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8457605

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in different means and mechanisms of transportation, suchas automotive, rail, robotic, and transmission transportationsystems (pipelines and stepped beams).

The content of this special issue confirms that researchdirection in the area of shock and vibration is and will con-tinue to be an important field of investigation in transporta-tion engineering. Further directions in this area could includethe identification of sources and paths of the transmissionof vibration in order to be able to modify the mechanismsin the early stages of the design of transportation systems.Elimination andminimization of unwanted vibrations occur-ring during the operation of transportation mechanismscontinue being an important research direction. Evaluationand assessment of human exposure to shock and vibration intransportation systems also remains an active and importantarea of research.

Acknowledgments

The editors of the special issue would like to thank authors ofall submitted papers.

Minvydas RagulskisLuis Munoz

Rafał BurdzikJulia I. Real

Wen-Hsiang HsiehRadosław Zimroz

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