Multimodal vibration damping using energy transfer

Circuit analog of a beam and its application to multimodal vibration damping, using piezoelectric transducers

Robot Vibration Control Using Inertial Damping Forces

Speech synthesis using a nonlinear energy damping model for the vocal folds vibration effect

From a theoretical viewpoint, the vocal folds vibration affects the vocal tract transfer characteristics through nonlinear time-varying interaction between the glottis and vocal tract. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate and model such e ects in order to improve voice quality in parametric rule-based speech synthesis systems. In this paper, we rst conducted analytic experiments on the vocal...

Damping Models for Structural Vibration

This dissertation reports a systematic study on analysis and identification of multiple parameter damped mechanical systems. The attention is focused on viscously and non-viscously damped multiple degree-offreedom linear vibrating systems. The non-viscous damping model is such that the damping forces depend on the past history of motion via convolution integrals over some kernel functions. The ...

Multimodal Vibration Damping through Piezoelectric Patches and Optimal Resonant Shunt Circuits

Piezoelectric elements connected to shunt circuits and bonded to a mechanical structure form a dissipation device that can be designed to add damping to the mechanical system. Due to the piezoelectric effect, part of the vibration energy is transformed into electrical energy that can be conveniently dissipated. Therefore, by using appropriate electrical circuits, it is possible to dissipate str...