Author(s):  
Haitao Luo ◽  
Guangming Liu ◽  
Shipeng Chen ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Peng Wang

Author(s):  
Rajiv Kumar Vashisht ◽  
Qingjin Peng

Rotating beams are quite common in rotating machinery e.g. fans of compressors in an airplane. This paper presents the experimental, hybrid, structural vibration control of flexible structures to enhance the vibration behavior of rotating beams. Smart materials have been used as sensors as well as actuators. Passive constrained layer damping (PCLD) treatment is combined with stressed layer damping technique to enhance the damping characteristics of the flexible beam. To further enhance the damping parameters, a closed form robust feedback controller is applied to reduce the broadband structural vibrations of the rotating beam. The feed forward controller is designed by combing with the feedback controller using a pattern search based optimization technique. The hybrid controller enhances the performance of the closed loop system. Experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of the presented technique.


2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 466-471
Author(s):  
Ming Li ◽  
Hui Ming Zheng

Significant improvement of damping characteristics can be achieved by using the new class of magnetic constrained layer damping treatment (MCLD). This paper presents the damping properties of the first and second torsional mode for a five-layer cantilever rectangular plate treated with partial MCLD. The Rayleigh-Ritz method and Hamilton’s principle are employed in the analysis. We have chosen both single and segmented patches with different sizes. It can be observed that for the two modes single-patched MCLD treatment induces less improvement of damping characteristics especially for the short patch. The effects of calculation of parameters like placement strategies of discrete patches, the length of patches are analyzed and discussed. The results obtained from analytical show that the optimum location of the patch, for the torsional mode, is at edge of the plate. Favorable comparisons with the conventional passive constrained layer damping treatment (PCLD) on various special cases of the problem are obtained. The results demonstrate MCLD treatment still improvements over PCLD in damping structural vibrations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 503 ◽  
pp. 118-121
Author(s):  
Zhen Lu Wang ◽  
Xue Jin Shen ◽  
Ling Zhou ◽  
Xiao Yang Chen

This paper is focused on the finite element analysis (FEA) and theoretical calculation of vibration characterization of V-shaped electrothermal microactuator. A vibration mechanical model about V-shaped electrothermal microactuator is presented. By having a comparison between FEA and theoretical calculation about natural frequencies of V-shaped electrothermal microactuator, the maximum error is within 0.19 %. This paper also analyzes the influences of microactuator geometric parameters on natural frequency. The length and thickness have larger effect on the natural frequency of the actuator, while the angle and width have less effect on the natural frequency.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiguang Zheng ◽  
Yingfeng Lei ◽  
Shande Li ◽  
Qibai Huang

The potential of using topology optimization as a tool to optimize the passive constrained layer damping (PCLD) layouts with partial coverage on flat plates is investigated. The objective function is defined as a combination of several modal loss factors solved by finite element-modal strain energy (FE-MSE) method. An interface finite element is introduced to modeling the viscoelastic core of PCLD patch to save the computational space and time in the optimization procedure. Solid isotropic material with penalization (SIMP) method is used as the material interpolation scheme and the parameters are well selected to avoid local pseudo modes. Then, the method of moving asymptote (MMA) is employed as an optimizer to search the optimal topologies of PCLD patch on plates. Applications of two flat plates with different shapes have been applied to demonstrate the validation of the proposed approach. The results show that the objective function is in a steady convergence process and the damping effect of the plates can be enhanced by the optimized PCLD layouts.


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