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A well-designed clamping layout significantly enhances the dynamic stiffness of a manufacturing system, improving its stability and suppressing cutting chatter in workpieces. This paper focuses on the machining of thin-walled beams, which are prone to vibration and have low stiffness, especially under hydraulic floating clamping conditions. By analyzing the system stability domain, we propose a method to improve system stiffness through strategic design of support module layouts. Finite element dynamic simulations and modal hammer experiments were conducted to validate this approach. The results show that the proposed layout design method increases the relative central frequency by 13.49% and the relative fundamental frequency by 8.51%. These findings demonstrate a substantial improvement in the dynamic stiffness of the part-clamping system, confirming that the auxiliary support module layout design method effectively enhances system dynamic stiffness and suppresses cutting chatter. Full article

Modified blind bolts (Hollo-Bolt) and a locally strengthened steel tube column in the panel zone were created to overcome the moment-resisting problem for the bolted connections between concrete-filled hollow section columns and open section beams and to enhance the performance of connections. The cyclic loading was conducted on a total of six modified anchored blind bolted flush end-plate connections to concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns. The key parameters investigated were the tube wall thickness, end-plate thickness, blind bolt anchorage method, and beam section. The failure mode, hysteretic behavior, strength, stiffness, ductility, and energy dissipation capacity of the connections were analyzed and evaluated with all details. The results indicated that connections with modified anchored blind bolts and locally strengthened steel tubes could avoid the premature failure of CFST column and exhibit an improved behavior with a favorable strength, stiffness, and stiffness degradation. The test observations reveal two representative failure modes, and the tube wall thickness and blind bolt anchorage method have a significant effect on the resultant failure mode. Moreover, the use of thin endplate and weak beam can effectively enhance the hysteretic behavior of joints, ductility, and energy dissipation capacity; and the change in anchoring method has little effect on the stiffness. Finite element (FE) analysis models were established for the aforementioned connections. The numerical models were validated against the experimental results and exhibited good agreement. Finally, based on the component method, an initial stiffness calculation method was established for the connections. Full article