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Education

Ph.D in Electromechanical Engineering: Performance Measures for Nonlinear Energy Sinks in Mitigating Single and Multi-Mode Vibrations: Theory, Simulation and Implementation, Ghent University, obtained 04/2021

Work experience

2021-…:Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- 2021-2022: Funded by Industrial Research Fund project: RoViON
- 2022-…: Funded by Special Research Fund postdoctoral fellowship
- Research on the nonlinear energy sink, resonance capture cascade
2015-2021: Academic assistant & PhD student at Ghent University
- Position with a shared research and teaching load
- Teaching labs & exercises in Structural Dynamics and several dynamics & control courses
- Research on the nonlinear energy sink, resonance capture cascade
2011-2017: Private Tutor at Educadomo & My Sherpa, Ghent, Belgium

Visiting researcher

01/2023-01/2024: Visiting Research at ENSAM, Lille, France
- Funded by CWO international collaboration
- Interrupted stay with weekly visits
02/2022-04/2022: Visiting Research at Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest , France
- Position with a shared research and teaching load
- Teaching labs & exercises in Structural Dynamics and several dynamics & control courses
- Research on the nonlinear energy sink, resonance capture cascade
2011-2017: Private Tutor at Educadomo & My Sherpa

Publications

Design of a Piecewise-Stiffening Nonlinear Energy Sink for Torsional Vibration Attenuation

Harikrishnan Venupogal, Mia Loccufier and Kevin Dekemele. "Design of a Piecewise-Stiffening Nonlinear Energy Sink for Torsional Vibration Attenuation." International Journal Of Non-Linear Mechanics. 2025

Bifurcations in a controlled system with softening stiffness: The Virtual Mechanical System control law for nonlinear vibration control

Sarah Geykens, Jasper Juchem, Kevin Dekemele and Mia Loccufier. "Bifurcations in a controlled system with softening stiffness: The Virtual Mechanical System control law for nonlinear vibration control." Nonlinear Dynamics (2025): 1-19.

Softening versus hardening nonlinear energy sinks: forced vibration control and isolated resonance curves

Kevin Dekemele and Giuseppe Habib. "Softening versus hardening nonlinear energy sinks: forced vibration control and isolated resonance curves." Nonlinear Dynamics (2025): 1-20.

A piezoelectric nonlinear energy sink shunt for vibration damping

Kevin Dekemele, Christophe Giraud-Audine, and Olivier Thomas. "A piezoelectric nonlinear energy sink shunt for vibration damping." Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 220 (2024): 111615.

A magnetic plucking frequency up-conversion piezoelectric energy harvester with nonlinear energy sink structure

Jiwei Shen, Shui Wan, Jundong fu, Shuli Li, Debao Lv, Kevin Dekemele (2024). A magnetic plucking frequency up-conversion piezoelectric energy harvester with nonlinear energy sink structure. Applied Energy, 376, 124326.

Vibration control of a cantilever beam coupled with magnetic tri-stable nonlinear energy sink

Jundong Fu, Shui Wan, Wenke Li, Jiwei Shen, Harikrishnan Venugopal, Mia Loccufier, Kevin Dekemele (2024). Vibration control of a cantilever beam coupled with magnetic tri-stable nonlinear energy sink. Nonlinear Dynamics, 1-23.

Cyclic loading test for prefabricated ultra-high performance concrete columns with bellows grouting connection

Jundong Fu, Shui Wan, Jie Xiao, Xiao Wang, Peng Zhou, Kevin Dekemele (2024). Cyclic loading test for prefabricated ultra-high performance concrete columns with bellows grouting connection. Structural Concrete, 1-22.

Effect of magnetic-spring bi-stable nonlinear energy sink on vibration and damage reduction of concrete double-column piers: Experimental and numerical analysis

Jundong Fu, Shui Wan, Peng Zhou, Jiwei Shen, Mia Loccufier, Kevin Dekemele (2024). Effect of magnetic-spring bi-stable nonlinear energy sink on vibration and damage reduction of concrete double-column piers: Experimental and numerical analysis. Engineering Structures, 303, 117517

A virtual mechanical system control law for energy transfer towards a single actuation point in n DOF buildings

Jasper Juchem, Sarah Geyskens, Kevin Dekemele, Mia Loccufier (2024). A Virtual Mechanical System control law for energy transfer towards a single actuation point in n DOF buildings. Engineering Structures, 302, 117493.

Tailored nonlinear stiffness and geometric damping: Applied to a bistable vibration absorber

Kevin Dekemele (2023). Tailored nonlinear stiffness and geometric damping: Applied to a bistable vibration absorber. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 157, 104548.

Inverted resonance capture cascade: modal interactions of a nonlinear energy sink with softening stiffness

Kevin Dekemele, Giuseppe Habib (2023). Inverted resonance capture cascade: modal interactions of a nonlinear energy sink with softening stiffness. Nonlinear Dynamics, 111(11), 9839-9861.

The periodically extended stiffness nonlinear energy sink

Kevin Dekemele, Giuseppe Habib, Mia Loccufier (2022). The periodically extended stiffness nonlinear energy sink. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 169, 108706.

First order plus fractional diffusive delay modeling: interconnected discrete systems

Jasper Juchem, Amélie Chevalier, Kevin Dekemele, Mia Loccufier (2021). First order plus fractional diffusive delay modeling: interconnected discrete systems. Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, 24(5), 1535-1558.

High-voltage synthetic inductor for vibration damping in resonant piezoelectric shunt

Kevin Dekemele, Patrick Van Torre, Mia Loccufier (2021). High-voltage synthetic inductor for vibration damping in resonant piezoelectric shunt. Journal of Vibration and Control, 27(17-18), 2047-2057.

Student feedback on educational innovation in control engineering: active learning in practice

Amélie Chevalier, Kevin Dekemele, Jasper Juchem, Mia Loccufier (2021). Student feedback on educational innovation in control engineering: active learning in practice. IEEE Transactions on Education, 64(4), 432-437.

Design, construction and experimental performance of a nonlinear energy sink in mitigating multi-modal vibrations

Kevin Dekemele, Patrick Van Torre, Mia Loccufier (2020). Design, construction and experimental performance of a nonlinear energy sink in mitigating multi-modal vibrations. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 473, 115243.

Evolutionary‐Based Sparse Regression for the Experimental Identification of Duffing Oscillator

Saeideh Khatiry Goharoodi, Kevin Dekemele, Mia Loccufier, Luc Dupre, Guillaume Crevecoeur (2020). Evolutionary‐Based Sparse Regression for the Experimental Identification of Duffing Oscillator. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020(1), 7286575.

Performance and tuning of a chaotic bi-stable NES to mitigate transient vibrations

Kevin Dekemele, Patrick Van Torre, Mia Loccufier (2019). Performance and tuning of a chaotic bi-stable NES to mitigate transient vibrations. Nonlinear Dynamics, 98, 1831-1851.

Performance measures for targeted energy transfer and resonance capture cascading in nonlinear energy sinks

Kevin Dekemele, Robin De Keyser, Mia Loccufier (2018). Performance measures for targeted energy transfer and resonance capture cascading in nonlinear energy sinks. Nonlinear Dynamics, 93, 259-284.

Crack identification method in beam-like structures using changes in experimentally measured frequencies and Particle Swarm Optimization

Samir Khatir, Kevin Dekemele, Mia Loccufier, Tawfiq Khatir, Magd Abdel Wahab (2018). Crack identification method in beam-like structures using changes in experimentally measured frequencies and Particle Swarm Optimization. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, 346(2), 110-120.

Kevin Dekemele

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