Category Archives: Research

A paper entitled “Bilinear Systems with Initial Gaps Involving Inelastic Collision: Forced Response Experiments and Simulations” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Transactions of the ASME. [doi:10.1115/1.4051493]. It is based on a collaborative work with Prof. D’Souza of Ohio State University.

Graduate student Kiichi Taguchi [1] and Professor Saito [2] presented research at Dynamics and Design Conference 2020 (Online).

[1] Kiichi Taguchi, Yoshinobu Aoshima, Akira Saito, “Dynamic characteristics of electromagnetic energy harvesting using two degree of freedom oscillator”, ID: 453
[2] Akira Saito, Mirei Kaneko, Takumi Namatame, Tatsuya Suzuki, “Forced Vibration Analysis of Induction Motor”, ID: 207

Kiichi Taguchi[1] and Takumi Namatame[2] presented their papers at The 49th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (inter-noise 2020 e-congress).

[1] Kiichi Taguchi, Yoshinobu Aoshima, and Akira Saito, “Electromagnetic energy harvesting from ambient vibration using permanent magnet linear oscillator”, No. 2_5_581.

[2] Takumi Namatame, Tatsuya Suzuki, and Akira Saito, “Electromagnetic noise and vibration generated by induction motors”, No.7_3_588.
※This work was supported in part by Tsugawa Foundation. The support from Tsugawa Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Graduate student Ryo Sugai [1] and Professor Saito [2] presented their papers at ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.

[1] Ryo Sugai, Akira Saito, and Hidetaka Saomoto “Damage identification using static and dynamic responses based on topology optimization and lasso regularization”, paper DETC2020-22279
– This work is based on a collaborative work with Dr. Hidetaka Saomoto of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

[2] Akira Saito, Junta Umemoto, Kohei Noguchi, Meng-Hsuan Tien, and Kiran D’Souza “Experimental forced response analysis of two-degree-of-freedom piecewise-linear systems with a gap”, paper DETC2020-22289
– This work is based on senior thesis project of Junta Umemoto (currently at Tsukuba University), and a collaborative work with Professor D’Souza of the Ohio University.

A paper entitled “Data-driven Experimental Modal Analysis by Dynamic Mode Decomposition” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Sound and Vibration. [Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115434]

Saito gave a presentation at IUTAM Symposium on Model Order Reduction of Coupled Systems (MORCOS2018)[Link to the symposium website], which was held in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 22 to May 25, 2018. The talk was entitled “A model order reduction method for electro-magnetic vibration analysis of electric motors”.

Co-authored paper entitled “Effects of Magnetostriction on Electromagnetic Motor Vibration at Sideband Frequencies” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics [link].