Vibration Control of a Cylindrical Shell Structure Using Macro Fiber Composite Actuators

Abstract

We studied the vibration suppression of an end-capped cylindrical shell structure with surface bonded macro fiber composite actuators. The dynamic characteristics of the cylindrical shell structure were first analyzed, and then a negative velocity feedback algorithm was applied to suppress the structural vibration at resonance and nonresonance vibration frequencies. The modal mass and stiffness matrix of the smart cylindrical shell structure were extracted for the controller design. An active controller was designed to suppress vibration of the smart structure, and the control performance was evaluated in resonance and nonresonance regimes. It was found that structural vibration was reduced by adopting a proper negative velocity feedback control algorithm in both resonance and nonresonance regimes.

Keywords:

• Cylindrical shell structure
• Dynamic characteristics
• Finite element analysis
• Macro fiber composite
• Structural vibration control
• Modal analysis

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work was supported by the Dongguk University Research Fund of 2010.

Notes

^#Communicated by S. Sinha.