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The aim of this work is two-fold: to design devices for passive electric damping of structural vibrations by distributed piezoelectric transducers and electric networks, and to experimentally validate the effectiveness of such a damping…
A problem of vibration control of smart beams was addressed in various publications which primarily utilize collocated sensors and actuators and neglect the effect of measurement noise in the observer design. This paper develops a natural…
In this paper the implementation of piezoelectrics to a state-of-the-art wafer gripper is investigated. The objective is to propose and validate a solution method, which includes a mechanical design and control system, to achieve at least…
This paper presents an experimental framework for inducing and tuning vibration bandgaps in digitally controlled mechatronic metamaterials. A slender-beam structure instrumented with collocated piezoelectric sensor-actuator pairs…
A novel space-discretized Finite Differences-based model reduction, introduced in (Liu,Guo,2020) is extended to the partial differential equations (PDE) model of a multi-layer Mead-Marcus-type sandwich beam with clamped-free boundary…
This paper addresses the dynamics of locally-resonant sandwich beams, where multi-degree-of-freedom viscously-damped resonators are periodically distributed within the core matrix. Using an equivalent single-layer Timoshenko beam model…
Online and real-time sensing and monitoring of the health state of complex structures, such as aircraft and critical components of power stations, are essential aspects of research in dynamics. Several types of sensors are used to capture…
Piezoelectric actuators have been widely used to form a self-monitoring smart system to do Structural health monitoring (SHM). One of the most fundamental issues in using actuators is to determine the actuation effects being transferred…
In this paper a novel device aimed at controlling the mechanical vibrations of plates by means of a set of electrically-interconnected piezoelectric actuators is described. The actuators are embedded uniformly in the plate wherein they…
The stability of a piezoelectric structure controlled by a digital vibration absorber emulating a shunt circuit is investigated in this work. The formalism of feedback control theory is used to demonstrate that systems with a low…
Instead of analog electronic circuits and components, digital controllers that are capable of active multi-resonant piezoelectric shunting are applied to elastic metamaterials integrated with piezoelectric patches. Giving thanks to the…
In the paper, a vibration damping system powered by harvested energy with implementation of the so-called SSDV (synchronized switch damping on voltage source) technique is designed and investigated. In the semi-passive approach, the…
Dynamic response of sandwich beams with resonators embedded in the cores subjected to impact loads is studied. Using finite element models the effectiveness of various local resonator frequencies under a given impact load is compared to the…
This paper analyzes the possibility of increasing the acoustic transmission loss of sound transmitted through planar or curved glass shells using attached piezoelectric macro fiber composite (MFC) actuators shunted by active circuits with a…
Two-dimensional thin plates are widely used in many applications. Shunt damping is a promising way for the attenuation of vibration of these electromechanical systems. It enables a compact vibration damping method without adding significant…
Layered smart composite beams involving a piezoelectric layer are traditionally actuated by a voltage source by the extension mechanism. In this paper, we consider only the bending and shear of a cantilevered piezoelectric smart composite…
Piezoelectric transducers applied on or integrated in structures, combined with appropriate circuits have been extensively investigated as a smart approach to the mitigation of resonant vibrations with high relative amplitudes. \cmt{A…
Colloidal suspensions in industrial processes often exhibit shear thickening that is difficult to control actively. Here, we use piezoelectric transducers to apply acoustic perturbations to dynamically tune the suspension viscosity in the…
Two-dimensional thin plates are widely used in many aerospace and automotive applications. Among many methods for the attenuation of vibration of these mechanical structures, piezoelectric shunt damping is a promising way. It enables a…
Existing smart composite piezoelectric beam models in the literature mostly ignore the electro-magnetic interactions and adopt the linear elasticity theory. However, these interactions substantially change the controllability and…