Distributed control of beams by electric transmission lines with PZT actuators

Francesco dell'Isola; Stefano Vidoli

doi:10.1117/12.293511

14 November 1997 Distributed control of beams by electric transmission lines with PZT actuators

Francesco dell'Isola, Stefano Vidoli

Proceedings Volume 3241, Smart Materials, Structures, and Integrated Systems; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.293511
Event: Far East and Pacific Rim Symposium on Smart Materials, Structures, and MEMS, 1997, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to propose a distributed control technique based on the modal coupling between a beam and an electric transmission line with PZT actuators; these last behave as capacitances in the electric line and contribute to beam stiffness because their end-points are restrained along the beam; we call the described system a piezoelectro- mechanical (PEM) beam. Structural control by means of concentrated devices often requires high voltages and high inductances; this fact is particularly serious when one has to deal with PZT actuators; in order to overcome the problem we propose a device in which the control action is distributed along the beam. We found that the line inductance and the line resistance behave as electric 'taps' respectively for the electro-mechanical modal coupling and for the damping efficiency: we found a bounded region in the line impedance plane in which the energy exchanged between the beam and the electric line is maximum and therefore the control strength is maximum. By means of already available PZT actuators we obtain very high damping ratios for mechanical vibrations ((delta) approximately equals 0.1). We only investigated a simple case of passive control in damping vibration, but several active control applications are conceivable: it seems to us that such control technique is more efficient than those already proposed in the literature characterized by the use of actuators supplying concentrated forces.

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Francesco dell'Isola and Stefano Vidoli "Distributed control of beams by electric transmission lines with PZT actuators", Proc. SPIE 3241, Smart Materials, Structures, and Integrated Systems, (14 November 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.293511

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