A high-precision equipment is very sensitive to vibration, even micro vibration. How isolate the low-frequency broadband multidirectional vibration remains a challenge. As main component of piezoelectric smart isolation model, stack consists actuator, sensor, and rubber layer. The numerical results obtained by finite element method agree well with theoretical solutions. attenuates rapidly under...

Self-sensing techniques for atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers have several advantageous characteristics compared to the optical beam deflection method. The possibility of down scaling, parallelization of cantilever arrays and the absence of optical interference associated imaging artifacts have led to an increased research interest in these methods. However, for multifrequency AFM, the ...

Many electroactive functional materials have been used in smalland microscale transducers and precision mechatronic control systems for years. It was not until the mid-1980s that scientists started integrating electroactive materials with large-scale structures as in situ sensors and/or actuators, thus introducing the concept of smart materials, smart structures, and structronic systems. This p...

Active Vibration Control (AVC) is an important problem in structures. One of the ways to tackle this problem is to make the structure smart, adaptive and self-controlling. The objective of active vibration control is to reduce the vibration of a system by automatic modification of the system’s structural response. This paper features the modeling and design of a Periodic Output Feedback (POF) c...

The aim of the experimental study described in this paper was Lamb wave method evaluation for damage/ defects detection of epoxi/glass composites. Can be used piezoelectric transducers actuator/sensor glued on the surface of investigated composite, using transmission mode. The chosen control parameter was the sensor signal attenuation because of defects that exists in examinated samples. The pr...

In this paper, a feedback control mechanism and its optimization for rotating disk vibration/flutter via changes of air-coupled pressure generated using piezoelectric patch actuators are studied. A thin disk rotates in an enclosure, which is equipped with a feedback control loop consisting of a micro-sensor, a signal processor, a power amplifier, and several piezoelectric (PZT) actuator patches...

Sensor networks are becoming popular nowadays in the development of smart environments. Heavily relying on static sensor and actuators, though, such environments usually lacks of versatility regarding the provided services and interaction capabilities. Here we present a framework for smart environments where a service robot is included within the sensor network acting as a mobile sensor and/or ...

In this paper, stabilization of a Rayleigh beam with collocated piezoelectric sensor/actuator is studied. With linear output feedback law, several stability results are achieved. The the closed-loop system depends on location actuator. sufficient and necessary conditions for strong provided. For almost all choices ends actuator, energy decreases to zero in polynomial way explicit decay rate obt...

This paper presents an analytical, numerical and experimental study of an asymmetric piezoelectric actuator/sensor cantilever beam. The structure consists in a three-layered laminate with a piezoceramic acting as actuator, an elastic material layer and a second piezoceramic layer that can operate as a sensor or actuator. The coupled expansion-bending motion of the system is analytically resolve...

The generalized plane quasistatic deformations of linear piezoelectric laminated plates are analyzed by the Eshelby–Stroh formalism. The laminate consists of homogeneous elastic or piezoelectric laminae of arbitrary thickness and width. The three-dimensional differential equations of equilibrium for a piezoelectric body are exactly satisŽ ed at every point in the body. The analytical solution i...