This paper presents the design of an experimental electromechanical device for vibration control and energy harvesting. Traditionally, when the broadband resonant response due to a selected mode of a lightly damped structure needs to be controlled a vibration absorber is used. The resonance frequency of the absorber can be chosen to minimise the response of the structure under control. Optimisi...

Systems that exhibit flexible dynamics are susceptible to vibration caused by changes in the reference command and from external disturbances. Feedback control is an obvious choice to deal with these vibrations, but in many cases, it is insufficient or difficult to implement. Input shaping does not deal with vibration excited by external disturbances; however it has proven beneficial for reduci...

Significant structural vibration is an undesirable characteristic in helicopter flight that leads to structural fatigue, poor ride quality for passengers and high acoustic signature for the vehicle. Previous Individual Blade Control (IBC) techniques based on piezoelectric actuator schemes to reduce these effects have been hindered by electromechanical limitations of piezoelectric actuators. The...

In an automotive system, the vehicle suspension usually contributes to the vehicle's handling and braking for good active safety and driving pleasure and keeps the vehicle occupants comfortable and reasonably well isolated from road noise, bumps and vibrations. The design of vehicle suspension systems is an active research field in automotive industry (Du and Zhang, 2007; Guglielmino, et al., 2...

In this article, the radiated noise by a shock-absorber is studied. This particular shock-absorber is used in a heavy-gauge shearing line in order to stop the cut steel sheets. Three steps are followed to evaluate the propagated sound in the surroundings; first of all, the plate vibration response is specified after the impact. Secondly, the edges of the plate are substituted by a set of the mo...

Tuned mass dampers (TMD), active mass dampers (AMD) and hybrid mass dampers (HMD) have been widely applied for vibration control of tall buildings and bridges in the past decade. Recently, the author and his coworkers have developed semiactive or smart tuned mass dampers (STMD) using semiactive variable stiffness systems. STMD’s are superior than TMD’s in reducing the response of the primary st...

Mechanical-electrical analogous circuit models are widely used in electromechanical system design as they represent the function of a coupled electrical and mechanical system using an equivalent electrical system. This research uses electrical circuits to establish a discussion of simple active vibration control principles using two scenarios: an active vibration isolation system and an active ...