Piezoelectric damping of flexible structures using novel electrode shape design

Forouza Pourki; Horacio Sosa

doi:10.1117/12.152755

8 September 1993 Piezoelectric damping of flexible structures using novel electrode shape design

Forouza Pourki, Horacio Sosa

Proceedings Volume 1917, Smart Structures and Materials 1993: Smart Structures and Intelligent Systems; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152755
Event: 1993 North American Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, 1993, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstract

The so called `adaptive' or `smart structures' are a new generation of structures in which the principles of control engineering are used to make a structure to adapt to a set of required geometric or dynamic constraints. Examples of `adaptive' or `smart structures' are abundant in `organic and biological systems' in nature. One of the problems in shape adaptation of flexible structures is active damping in which the objective is to suppress undesirable disturbances in the way of convergence to a desired shape. Principally, this task is achieved through the application of modal forces which are opposing unstable or undesirable motion of the structure. In this paper active damping of a beam as an example of flexible structures is studied. The purpose is to stabilize significant modes of motion with a piezoelectric actuator- sensor. Using a one dimensional partial differential equation model, a variational method is used to find a dissipative energy function. A criteria for the design of the shape of the piezoelectric material or electrode, which can accomplish damping of significant modes, is derived. Unlike previous efforts, which could find electrode shape for dissipativity of one mode, it is proven that the suggested shape guarantees the dissipativity of energy function for all modes of the system.

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Forouza Pourki and Horacio Sosa "Piezoelectric damping of flexible structures using novel electrode shape design", Proc. SPIE 1917, Smart Structures and Materials 1993: Smart Structures and Intelligent Systems, (8 September 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152755

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